On 18 Aug 2006 08:33:33 -0700, "Andre Jute" wrote:

About twenty years ago a fellow who wrote DIY articles for one of the
UK audio mags, maybe his name was Andy Bland, made a joke: "Which end
of the resistor is positive?" The magazine got a lot of replies from
people claiming to be qualified in electronics telling him which end of
the resistor is positive..

If I could reverse the resistors in my CD rewinder, I bet it would run
the other way.

Kal