From: Jan van Hoek (NL) 

>> And mainframe computer fanfold paper?

If you won't tell it to anyone else, I am prepared to confess that I always
change the paper settings in my word processor to inches, first thing after
installing such software. I know those paper measures by heart, and I don't
even recognize the same when expressed in millimeters. This force of habit
is amplified by the plastic overlay templates that I have saved from my
school days, which are also expressed in inches rather than millimeters.
It's a benign deviation, which is not expected to disappear soon.

I have the same with wood screws. In my younger days these were expressed
in a mixed fashion: inches for length and millimeters for diameter (e.g.
3/4 x 6 means 3/4 inch long and 6 millimiters thick). Only shop assistants
over 50 years of age will recognize these measures and translate them on
the fly to what I really need.
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-- Jan van Hoek (NL)
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