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From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Resistor Color code sayings
Message-ID: <11829@fluke.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 16:55:20 GMT
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In article <28@loop.UUCP> keithl@loop.UUCP (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
}
}The Society of Women Engineers at U Minn ca. 1980 preferred:
}
}By Becoming Revolutionary Orators, Young Girls Become Very Great Women
}
}
}I disagree with the sentiment - I think they should become engineers - but
}this is a little easier to take than rape.  Perhaps some bright poetic
}type can come up with something better.
}
}On the other hand, if you really want to learn color code, take 10,000 random
}resistors, dump them in a box, and SORT them.  You'll know color code
}when you are done.  What good it will do now that you have squint blindness
}isn't my problem ;-).

I can just look at a resistor and immediately tell the value; I've been
doing it for so many years.  But I have a tough time remembering the color
code!  It's the same way with typing.  I type about 100 wpm, but if you
caught me away from a keyboard, I'm not sure I could list the keys on the
home row.  

On the other hand, I'd never be able to remember the order of colors in
the rainbow without the mnemonic VIBGYOR. 

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Norm   (strong@tc.fluke.com)