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Title: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: Amiduffer on December 20, 2005, 06:02:31 PM

I'm looking at a cool "Transform your ATX PSU" into a power source for your A1200 site, and the term PCB comes up. I comes up a lot in other areas, and i'm drawing a blank as to what it means. Fill me in guys. :-?

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: JaXanim on December 20, 2005, 06:08:05 PM

Printed Circuit Board (as in electronics/computers)
PolyChlorinated Biphenyls (as in heat exchange fluids/electicity transformers)
erm...?

JaX

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: PaSha on December 20, 2005, 06:08:47 PM

Printed Circuit Board.
This is the (usually green, but also often brown or blue) board the components are soldered onto.

The motherboard in your Amiga is a PCB.

-Paul

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: motorollin on December 20, 2005, 07:25:14 PM

Politically Correct Buzzword?

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moto

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: giZmo350 on December 20, 2005, 07:29:59 PM

This is just too easy, but, I digress!   :lol:

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: motorollin on December 20, 2005, 07:33:30 PM

Pakistan Cricket Board?

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moto

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: JaXanim on December 20, 2005, 08:35:07 PM

The Wikipedia says:
    * Brazilian Communist Party (in Portuguese, Partido Comunista Brasileiro)
    * Communist Party of Bolivia (in Spanish, Partido Comunista de Bolivia)
    * Pakistan Cricket Board !!
    * PCBoard, a bulletin board system software
    * Police Complaints Board, which oversaw the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales until 1985.
    * Polychlorinated biphenyl, an organic pollutant
    * Power circuit breaker (hardware)
    * Power control box (hardware)
    * Printed circuit board (hardware)
    * Process control block
    * Product configuration baseline
    * Program control block in Data Language/1
    * Protocol control block (networking)
    * errm...


    * The Professional Capacity Building program         www.pcb.its.dot.gov
    *Perth Convention Bureau www.pcb.com.au  Nice picture!
    *Please Count Backwards - as the astronaut said to the guy with the match.
    * errm....


JaX

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: Amiduffer on December 21, 2005, 01:45:05 AM

I just needed the printed circuit board. Thanks. :-)

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: SHADES on December 21, 2005, 02:02:35 AM

It's just another TLA ;)

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: JaXanim on December 21, 2005, 09:46:14 AM

You mean ATLA or maybe YATLA?
Still, better those than a FLAb I guess (which both are, of course).

JaX

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: Zac67 on December 21, 2005, 08:53:06 PM

No no, PCB definitely stands for
Preposterous Clan of Bushes

*SCNR*

Title: Re: What the heck is a PCB
Post by: Eclipse on December 21, 2005, 10:16:24 PM

Probably Currently Broken.
The Americans call them Printed Wire Boards as well.