Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 18 June 2018 19:24:14 Jim Lee wrote:

> On 06/18/2018 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> > Peter Otten wrote:
> >> "folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky"
> >> into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer
> >> assumes that these words are somehow related to the labeled object.
> >
> > Well, there is a thing called "shot noise", and you can probaby
> > get it from a Shottky diode under some circumstances, but
> > Shottky is definitely someone's name. (Walter H. Shottky, to
> > be specific.)
>
> FWIW, we used to call them barrier diodes, or sometimes hot carrier
> diodes, until the name "Schottky" became commonplace in, what, the mid
> 80s or so?
>
> -Jim

More like the early 70's. I spent from 70, to late 77 keeping one of 
Nebraska ETV's 3rd of a megawatt transmitters on the air. One of the 
support engineers brought up a 10 pack of the first HP schottkey diodes 
up and made the claim that it was a 98% efficient rectifier at 500 mhz.  
So I removed the twin vacuum tube diode (a 6AL5) that wasn't capable of 
delivering a volt of video from a monitoring test point into astd 75 ohm 
load, and soldered one of this new HP diodes in its place.  I had to 
lift it back out of its mount nearly 3/4" just to get it down to one 
volt.  It didn't take me long to modify the other 5.
 
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