<r>John Beetem said: <br/> <br/> <br/> I had to look up "boffin".  I wonder what the origin is?<br/> <br/> <br/> If I want to know the origin of something like this, I usually turn to the "World Wide Words" web site: <URL url="http://www.worldwidewords.org/%E2%80%A6..tm">http://www.worldwidewords.or...

<t><br/> Steve said: <br/> <br/> <br/> That"s the point, I would have thought that, but from what I can see Farnell and RS only make mention of 2000 units. Where are the other 8k going ?<br/> <br/> <br/> Adding together many postings (and possibly coming to the wrong conclusions), it appears that of...