Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Walter Banks Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 20:32:37 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: <53892325.31B8491D@bytecraft.com> References: <260520141149437650%timstreater@greenbee.net> <771.298T531T9553356@kltpzyxm.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: iuYJIqP90BWydcv2lnTftw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD479 (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3430 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > In article , stephen@sprunk.org > (Stephen Sprunk) writes: > > > Well, we did have a spacecraft crash into Mars because someone screwed > > up a US/metric units conversion. OTOH, an airliner in Canada (cf. > > Gimli Glider) run out of fuel mid-flight due to a bad imperial/metric > > conversion, so we're not alone. > > Shortly after the Gimli Glider incident, I saw a cartoon showing a > fuel tech on the wing of a plane with a ruler in his hand, calling > out to a passenger inside: "How many feet in a liter?" The Gimli glider was an amazing piece of both bad and good airmanship. Bad choice of units but they did minimal damage in the landing. They flew the ac out of Gimli and it wasn't very long later I was on an AC flight from Toronto to San Francisco and though I recognized the registration. As I passed the cockpit on exiting I asked. Yup it was the Gimli Glider. Capt looked at me and said I guess we (his crew) know which units to use. :) w..