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Thread ID: 102393 2009-08-18 01:45:00 Russian Dam Explosion Kills 13+ SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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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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