The Society for Creative Anachronism The SCA was founded in 1967 and now has local groups in every major city in North America, plus local groups in Europe and Australia Our goal is to recreate the arts, combat and social culture of the Middle Ages 'as it should have been', meaning we take what is good and useful (and fun) and leave behind the bad things, (like the Black Plague, for example)
Abbreviation for "Society for Creative Anachronism" -- pronounced "Ess See Ay" in the westerly parts of the United States and "Scah" in many of the central and easterly parts Some areas use both almost equally Where the "Scah" form appears, you often find the useful adjective "scadian" (pronounced SKAY-dee-an or in some places SCAH-dee-an) referring to people, things, and customs of the group
Device-based solution that expands the transaction capacity of any Web site by offloading the processor-intensive tasks related to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic
Single connector architechure 80pin UW SCSI with connection in centre of drive & power supplied through the 80pin SCSI connection
Sub Carrier Authorization Sub carriers are portions of a commercial radio station's primary frequency allocation normally used to transmit Musak or similar limited service transmission The FCC has authorized FM radio stations to sell paging services using these SCA frequencies
Short for Single Connector Attachment, a type of disk drive connector that includes connection pins for the power cables as well as the data wires The current version of SCA, called SCA-2, uses 80 pins and is frequently used for high-end SCSI devices
Single Connector Attachment: Same speed SCSI interface as LVD, but integrates power and I?O information into a single 80-pin connector Used in high-end servers to allow hard disks to be hot-swapped in a RAID array
Abbreviation for Sun Colored Amethyst Glass containing small amounts of manganese when exposed to ultraviolet rays (i e the sun) over time will turn a light purple color Today the term is not used to describe a light purple color because it is often unknown if the purple color originated from the presence of manganese