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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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Subject: Re: Flyback Transformers
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Date: 28 Jul 88 17:32:14 GMT
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In article <3844@pdn.UUCP> larry@pdn.UUCP (0000-Larry Swift) writes:
>So what's a flyback transformer, and how did it get its name?

There were sort of like passenger/carrier pigeons -- they were kept in wire
cages and used for carrying messages from screen to screen and always
returned reliably. But, alas, they are now extinct, having been mercilessly
slaughtered with electron guns...

Rich