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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 12:50:50 PM on 9 July 2012.
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I wrote up a web page on the history of the All American 5ive AM MW radio. AA5 history These radios were sometimes called "AC/DC" sets, as they were hot chassis that could run off of AC mains or DC mains.

There's an Aussie rock band called "ACϟDC" that likely took their name from a derivative meaning of the term, one not associated with radios...


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 2 · Written at 10:52:24 PM on 21 April 2015.
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What is the code for the lightning character between AC-DC?


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 10:58:57 PM on 21 April 2015.
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 12:03:06 AM on 23 April 2015.
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I tried Code 991, doesn't seem to work Sad


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 5 · Written at 12:40:33 AM on 23 April 2015.
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Tried it in what, exactly?


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 6 · Written at 4:23:00 AM on 23 April 2015.
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Alt+991 to get me 'lightning bolt'?


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 7 · Written at 9:43:33 AM on 23 April 2015.
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Works for me in Word.

If you mean here in this forum, then Brad may be suppressing it. Use copy & paste --> ϟ


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 8 · Written at 4:32:14 PM on 23 April 2015.
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Copy & paste a good idea,( just seem to get black rectangle with 991 no matter what program)


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 9 · Written at 6:55:03 PM on 23 April 2015.
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Try ϟ Tongue


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 10 · Written at 1:01:43 AM on 25 April 2015.
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"ϟ"
OK seems to work! Will come in handy!
People will be "Thunderstruck" if I write ACϟDC that way!


 
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