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> Folks,
>
> Before the great company meltdown of Jan this year and as I discovered the
> grea
There are establishments here in the US that sell 'pounders' of 'beer',
i.e. 16oz. glasses. The reference is usually to something that only
loosely resembles beer - we're back to sex-in-a-canoe jokes here.
Establishments that server real beer most often refer to them as pints,
although there is ev
On 8/6/2015 4:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 5 August 2015 at 20:25, Fred Cisin wrote:
"A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true.
Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody
silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to
use...
And *n
>
> Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody
> silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to
> use...
Actually, 10 is a lousy base for a measuring system. It has far too few factors.
> And *nobody* else uses pounds, Fahrenheit or MM-DD-YY. Not in
On 5 August 2015 at 20:25, Fred Cisin wrote:
> "A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true.
Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody
silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to
use...
And *nobody* else uses pounds, Fahrenheit or MM-
Tony wrote (re: 25kg)...
Its about half the weight of many minicomputer bits (I think an RK05 drive
is about 50kg for example).
I cry DEC-bias, using an RK05 as your UOM ;)
For HP, a bare 7906 drive is 75kg (165#), and with controller, power supply,
and desk side rack that only holds th
On 05/08/2015 19:10, "tony duell" wrote:
>> Surprisingly none of my weightlifting mates can muster 25kg. I like the idea
>
> I doesn't have to be one mass, does it? Couldn't you pile up 5 off 5kg
> weights?
Nope, biggest mass was 20kg. You'd also think that with a warehouse full of
Proliants an
On Aug 5, 2015, at 1:26 PM, tony duell wrote:
(Fred wrote)
>> ...And pluto is no longer a planet.
Give us (New Horizons team) a couple years on that.
I’ll guess that even the IAU is going to realize the error of their ways by the
time all is said and done.
> No, he's a dog (could not resist)
>
> > Those are "imperial pints", in the US a pint is 16 fluid onces so nearer to
> > 464 (I think) grams...
>
> "A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true. Not just the
Over here we (used to) say 'A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter'
> price of beer not being a pound pe
Hmm.. 55 pints?
In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming
that 'pint' means the drink commonly called that over here and assuming
beer has a density similar to water [1] then 44 pints is very close.
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Those are "imperial pints
> Those are "imperial pints", in the US a pint is 16 fluid onces so nearer to
> 464 (I think) grams...
Sure, I've got it as 473ml or so.
But the OP was from the UK, so presumbly uses imperial pints.
-tony
> Surprisingly none of my weightlifting mates can muster 25kg. I like the idea
I doesn't have to be one mass, does it? Couldn't you pile up 5 off 5kg weights?
> of a 25kg bag of dog food though, I know somone who works at a pet food
> supplier...
Cement is often sold in 25kg bags now. At one tim
On 05/08/2015 18:43, "tony duell" wrote:
> More seriously, and ignoring things like '25 bags of sugar', what about the
> sort of weights used by
> those misguided people who do not get their exercise from lifting PDP's into
> racks?
Surprisingly none of my weightlifting mates can muster 25kg. I
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>
>
> > Hmm.. 55 pints?
>
> In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming
that
> 'pint' means the drink commonly called that over here and assuming beer
has
> a density similar to
> Hmm…. 55 pints?
In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming that
'pint' means the drink commonly
called that over here and assuming beer has a density similar to water [1] then
44 pints is very close.
[1] No jokes about making love in a canoe, please.
More serious
[25kg]
> Hmm…. 55 pints?
Not over here
-tony
On 2015-08-04 6:32 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :)
6.6[043] gallons of water
a 25Kg bag of dogfood
1470 3.5" floppies
About a kajillion emails
On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :)
6.6[043] gallons of water
a 25Kg bag of dogfood
1470 3.5" floppies
Hmm…. 55 pints?
On Aug 4, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Jules Richardson
wrote:
> On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
>> I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :)
>
> 25 things that weigh 1kg, obviously. :-)
>
>
>
On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :)
25 things that weigh 1kg, obviously. :-)
sed then I will happily
> > take them.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian
> >> Graham
> >> Sent: 01 August 2015 11:11
> >>
Hello Adrian,
how are you?
Maybe you still have the SDI disks aside for me?
Any time to ship them to me?
Thanks in advance!
Andrea
rialised then I will happily
> > take them.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian
> >> Graham
> >> Sent: 01 August 2015 11:1
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>> Folks,
>>
>> Before the great company meltdown of Jan this year and as I discovered the
>> great mailing list breakdown of not long after I save
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> Folks,
>
> Before the great company meltdown of Jan this year and as I discovered the
> great mailing list breakdown of not long after I saved some DEC kit for
list
> me
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Subject: Saved DEC kit
Folks,
Before the great company meltdown of Jan this year and as I discovered the
great mailing list breakdown of not long after I saved some DEC kit for list
members to collect, namely:
Alpha
Folks,
Before the great company meltdown of Jan this year and as I discovered the
great mailing list breakdown of not long after I saved some DEC kit for list
members to collect, namely:
Alpha 800 (rackmount)
uVAX 2000
VAX 4000VLC
These are still in my hallway in Cambs UK so if either the people
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