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Old 4th Jul 2019, 11:11 pm   #75
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Default Re: When did PCB tracks become 'traces'?

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Originally Posted by M0FYA Andy View Post
On the subject of acronyms, I get really annoyed when folk use the acronym followed by the last word in full, for example 'SAM Missile', 'PIN number', 'HIV Virus', there are dozens more. And to stay on the radio topic, 'IF Frequency'.

Andy
Of course, that phenomenon has its own TLA.
RAS, Redundant Acronym Syndrome.

Back to the original topic, I suppose in modern SMT (or should I say SMD) parlance, what we used to call "plated through holes" are now called "vias"
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