you know mass is stupid BUT there has never been an other term for 120 mm or 80 mm
I have never seen such a thing FYI: the zoll used with monitor or plumbing is only symbolic, some people know how big a 17" monitor is but if you say this wire is 17" long the cant even imagine what that is. they dont even know how much a zoll is. This is all the fault of the american government in the 19th century! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: [USMA:21807] Re: Dual labeling > "Wizard of OS" wrote on 2002-08-19 11:05 UTC: > > I suppose Canada will be in 10 years completely metric and UK and Eire in 20 > > years! > > When will Germany go completely metric? At least the Personal Computer > business there is still deeply contaminated by US FFU practice, in > particular designation of display sizes and floppy disks. I even see > occasionally references to 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" CD-ROMs (which are actually > 120 mm and 80 mm large), even in reputable magazines such as c't. > > [To be fair, I don't know anybody who measures anything in Germany in > FFU, but the system survives still in the informal names of product > types, such as "17-Zoll Monitor" or "2-Zoll Wasserrohr", and I still see > the most dreadful/ignorant "3.5-Zoll (8.89 cm) Floppy Disk" being > advertised in Germany.] > > Markus > > -- > Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK > Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> >
