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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
On 5 August 2015 at 20:25, Fred Cisin ci...@xenosoft.com 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,
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.
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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 water [1] then 44 pints is very close.
[1] No jokes about
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 time
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
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
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 per pint, but
On Aug 5, 2015, at 1:26 PM, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk 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
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
[25kg]
Hmm…. 55 pints?
Not over here
-tony
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. :-)
Hmm…. 55 pints?
On Aug 4, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Jules Richardson jules.richardso...@gmail.com
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 :)
6.6[043] gallons of water
a 25Kg bag of dogfood
1470 3.5 floppies
will happily
take them.
Regards
Rob
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Subject: Saved DEC kit
Folks,
Before the great company meltdown
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
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
August 2015 11:11
To: Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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 800
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
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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
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