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If we have "Plug Tops" why don't we have "Socket Bottoms"?

As per the Subject really. This expression "Plug Tops" has puzzled me for years.


I can understand confusion with D-Sub Connectors where the Plug has a Female Body and Male Pins and vice-versa. Trying to describe a D-Sub Gender Changer is like explaining the Rules of Cricket:-

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game."


Clive

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  • I think around here it was always plugs and sockets but the more "correct" tech types used the term plugtop more that just plug. Clean up and oil down always made me we wonder in the engineering workshops rather than clean down and oil up. Probably why I appreciated the daft skit. "Its raining!" , "Is it raining up or down?" , "Down of course, why ask?", "Well folk say that it rains up in Scotland!"



    Footnote - The old ones are the best
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  • I think around here it was always plugs and sockets but the more "correct" tech types used the term plugtop more that just plug. Clean up and oil down always made me we wonder in the engineering workshops rather than clean down and oil up. Probably why I appreciated the daft skit. "Its raining!" , "Is it raining up or down?" , "Down of course, why ask?", "Well folk say that it rains up in Scotland!"



    Footnote - The old ones are the best
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