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From: rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (Rick Kolker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Monitors: what letters of the alphabet do I need?
Message-ID: <120@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 09:38:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 09:38:19 1986
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Reply-To: rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (Rick Kolker)
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Summary: more acronyms

In article <1972@videovax.UUCP> stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>SECAM stands for SEQuentiel A Memoire ("sequential with storage"), according
>to _The SECAM Color Television System_, by L. E. Weaver (Tektronix, Inc.,
>Beaverton, Oregon, 1982).  SECAM uses a frequency-modulated chrominance
>subcarrier, unlike both NTSC and PAL.
>
>The story circulates in TV circles that SECAM actually stands for "System
>Essentially Contrary to the American Method". . .
>
>					Steve Rice
 
And NTSC stands for Never The Same Color.

                              rich
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