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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Battery Sizes
Keywords: Battery, A cell, history
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Date: 1 Feb 89 22:42:07 GMT
References: <7288@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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In article <7288@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, garnett@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett) writes:
 
> 		Electronics Trivia Question of the Day:
> 	
> 	"What ever happened to the original "A" size battery?

On a related topic:  who remembers round 9-volt batteries?

My first transistor radio (which I got on my birthday in 1965) was a
Silvertone, which used one.
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