[Info-vax] Anyone in the DC area interested in an Integrity?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Glen Herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> (snip)
> 
>> There are also issues of climate.  We have about an inch of snow on 
>> the ground here in New Jersey.  I suspect that most of Canada is 
>> measuring snow-fall in feet rather than inches.  
> 
> I would expect them to measure it in meters or centimeters.
> Canada is metric like just about all the rest of the world.
> Even England is metric, and we still call our units 'English'.
> 
>  > The snow here may last for
>> another two or three days.  Canada?  Weeks or months!
> 
> -- glen
> 

I don't expect the U.S. to "go metric" in my lifetime.

Back during the "gas crisis" a few gas stations were trying to sell 
gasoline by the liter.  The idea flew like a lead balloon!

You can easily find metric wrenches (spanners for you Brits) largely 
because Japanese and German made automobiles require them.  Domestic 
cars used English hardware sizes the last time I looked.  (That may have 
changed without my noticing because I've been driving Japanese cars for 
many years.) Butter is still sold by the pound even though the package 
is also marked with the net weight in grams.  Milk is sold by the quart 
although the container is also marked with the volume in milliliters. 
We inflate our tires and measure the pressure in pound per square inch.
How many Pascals is 30 PSI?  I'd have to look up the conversion factor, 
find my calculator. . . .

The schools teach the metric system, Systeme Internationale for you 
purists, but I doubt that the children do more than remember it long 
enough to pass the final examination!  What would they do with it!
Milk is sold by the quart, butter by the pound, gasoline by the gallon, 
etc, and probably will be for the next twenty-five or fifty years!

Computers usually use 6-32 (32 threads per inch) screws except for the 
CD-ROM mounting screws which are a metric size.

JF - If you're still paying attention, how many meters of snow do you 
have up there?