2002-07-31 For the most part, computer equipment is already made metric, it is just marketed as FFU. At least monitors use millimetre dot pitch and the so-called 3.5 inch floppy is really 94 mm x 90 mm x 3.3 mm.
This is all due to US practice. This practice would end if the rest of the world would tell the US that products, when sold in their countries, must be described in metric only. If the US wants to use FFU in their own borders, then do so, but not outside. Can you imagine how the US would react to such a demand? Pissed-off would be putting it mildly. This is why the US is in no big hurry to change. Presently they can export any product without need to metricate the product or the labelling. If the world was more demanding that American products be fully metric when sold outside the US, then metrication might be a topic the government might listen to. John > Also I want to see all computer equipment sold in mm, not inches as at present. > > Keep up the good work, Louis, and hope to have constructive dialogue with you regarding assisting > USA with it's positive steps towards metrication.
