Eeyore wrote:
John Fields wrote: ANSI reference designators.pdf

Only for antiquated Americans of course.

Do please especially explain the relevance of the letter Q to indicate a
transistor or U for an IC.

Graham

Chronological snobbery. I thought it was Brits who liked to keep old
names for things, such as your treasury department, which is still named
after the gingham tablecloth that they used to count the money on,
around a thousand years ago. (*)

(Of course more recently it could have been named after Yasir Arafat's
burnoose.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(*) Exchequer, for non-Commonwealth types.
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