Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Osmium" Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: How much does a Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn weigh? Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 14:45:54 -0500 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <2l51o9d69kui1b7bpskq19508cmht0cg45@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net WO0ykJ8yXJYGl/1/BHwp7AsymODdjS7JqWqxeyJvhpCDqeKDHh Cancel-Lock: sha1:vhSwaO6sCILzB4gVzNlgAO1bcEg= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3099 "Stephen Sprunk" wrote: > Produce is sold by weight at the grocery store, but in US agricultural > industry and commodities markets, crops are still measured in bushels. You city folk! Yeah, they empty the truck and then a guy with a long tape measure and big protractor sketches the truck box and they ruin that through a PC program and it comes up with bushels and then ..... No. They talk bushes but measure in weight - just like the grocery store. Note that shelled corn, oats, soybeans and wheat are all listed in the referenced table. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/bushels.html