The main reason Phil is that we went to the moon on International Feet
and Pounds [and an uncountable number of 80-column punched cards and
boxes of green-bar]. "If it got us to the moon, it has to be good
enough for everything else."
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
PS: I wonder how many rolls of toilet paper could have been made with
all the chad from those cards?
On 8/29/2020 1:06 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
On 8/29/2020 5:16 AM, Rich NE1EE wrote:
Even that would be easier if the country just bit the bullet and set
a time limit on moving to metric. Then we'd all be on the same page.
The Metric Conversion Act goes back to the Ford administration in 1974
(*). It is enforced slightly less than the Uniform Spitting on the
Sidewalk Act that predates it. The main reason that we see it at all in
the US is than manufacturers dealing in world-wide markets do not want
to have two different production lines,
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