[VoIP] 2600 Dial Pulse

[windmill]

EE School? Would that be Electrical/Electronic Engineering school? 
Suirely you did Physics at school in basic education.

As for when the transition occurred my recollection is somewhere 
aroundthe late 1960s and probably coinciding with metrication which 
officially commenced in 1967 in the UK. It was cps when I did my Physics 
exams at school in 1969 but when I went to technical college in 1970 it 
was Hertz.

brian

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Peter Duffield wrote:
>   
>> Hi Jayson
>>
>> The SI unit for frequency is the Hertz, which is named after the German
>> physicist Heinrich Hertz.  The correct way to refer to it in writing is 
>> 2600 Hz.  
>>
>> It meant so much more before they started naming International Standard units
>> after notable people - cps or cycles per second was clear, concise, and to the
>> point, and left nothing to the imagination.
>>     
>
> Indeed, when was that?  When I went to EE school in the 80s
> the transition to Hertz had already happened.  In fact, I didn't
> see "CPS" until a while later.
>
> Tangentially, I thought it was amusing to see people write
> 1 Hert or 1 Megahert, as if "Hertz" was the plural of "Hert".