Pronouncing acronyms (was Re: DEC acronyms)

1. I once nearly took a job with them 2. I thought they were called Ball as opposed to Balls. 3. I have several of the Ball VT100 boards referred to but lack a circuit diagram to fix them. It would be a Ball diagram as opposed to a DEC one. 4. No, the circuit is not in any of the DEC VT100 manuals. Regards ? Rod Smallwood -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell Sent: 02 August 2010 19:45 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Pronouncing acronyms (was Re: DEC acronyms) That would have been confusing to me. Balls Brothers were a company well-known for embedded video monitors in the 1970s/1980s, including at leat one version of the VT100 video board. So a 'Balls Box' to me would be a VT100 (or something) with a Balls Brothers video board. It was normally 'rustus' among the people I knoew who used it... Getting away from DEC for a moment... I have been known to pronouch 'CRT' as 'Crut'. But oddly, I almost never pronouce LED as 'led'. It's always 'Ell Eee Dee' (or 'Lima Echo Delta' if I am being more silly than normal :-)) -tony