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| Thread ID: 102393 | 2009-08-18 01:45:00 | Russian Dam Explosion Kills 13+ | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 802068 | 2009-08-18 23:27:00 | What is C/P'd? Copy / Paste. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 802069 | 2009-08-18 23:56:00 | I heard on the news they were doing maintenance on the turbines when the XFMR blew up. What is C/P'd? What is XFMR? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 802070 | 2009-08-19 03:49:00 | XFMR = transformer. Thanks R2. Journalistic license I suppose. |
sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 802071 | 2009-08-19 11:13:00 | From X = a cross, and "trans" means 'across'. Near enough, and it saved megadots in the morse code days. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 802072 | 2009-08-19 20:43:00 | Never heard of xfmr we called them transformers. Hope we aren't using abbreviations like this to show off. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 802073 | 2009-08-19 22:18:00 | For soldiers they are called magic boxes with wires. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 802074 | 2009-08-19 22:20:00 | Of course not :P It saves space on circuit diagrams. | sammo450 (13626) | ||
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