Re: When did PCB tracks become 'traces'?
In my career I have ended up with two projects that were beset with acronyms.
The first was a project for Grenada Hospital Group in the US. This was for a small box that a nurse could programme with an IR remote so that you could use the bedside phone if you paid some money in advance (it is the US remember). As such it had to be powered by the hospital switch, and the interface was defined in the BELLCORE standards. I bought the relevant two or three, but soon realised I needed another entitled "The 2000 most common acronyms in the BELLCORE standards". The most common was POT, which meant Plain Old Telephone.
The second was space instrumentation. I was project manager for MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer), currently en-route to Mercury. Oh boy was that a discipline beset with acronyms. I could wax lyrical, but it would fill a small book!
Here's a few though. FEE - front end electronics, MTM - Mercury Transfer Module, OBS - On Board Software, MPA - Macro-Pixel Array. Etc, etc.
Craig
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