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- From: S_KOEHLER@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Tobias Koehler)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: turntables
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:59:25 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe (FRG) - Informatik Rechnerabt.
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- In-Reply-To: pop@cs.umass.edu's message of 27 Jan 93 21:49:49 GMT
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- In <59221@dime.cs.umass.edu> pop@cs.umass.edu (Robin Popplestone) writes:
-
- > > We call them turntables here. I'm curious why they would be called
- > > "plates" on the other side of the pond? Are the pits planked over
- > > so they appear plate-shaped?
-
- > The english term has always been "turntable". I presume T. Koehler was
- > transliterating a german term.
-
- That is right. The German term is `Drehscheibe'. This term was chosen because
- the first turntables were plate-shaped. I didn't want to say `turntable',
- because I thought that this means `record player' ....
-
- So long
-
- Tobias B. Koehler
-
- >>>> NO HATRED IN THE WILD SOUTH <<<<
-