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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
      
   >>I don't recall hearing the term until FM became popular, and that's not   
   >>very long ago. All we knew was Short Wave, Medium Wave and Long Wave.   
   >   
   >All of which were AM, I think. AM has been around for about a century or so,   
   >since Marconi, perhaps. AM is a retronym, Shirley?   
   >   
   >Then there's SSB.   
      
   And PM.  When they fitted colour information into an existing AM and   
   FM bandwidth, they used "Phase Modulation" for the colour.   
      
   >It's like you didn't hear "audio tape" until video tape became popular, and   
   >now the "tape" is dropped because there are other media for recording sound   
   >and pictures.   
      
   I still "tape" shows on my hard disk based PVR.   
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