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>   Re: Re: Memories echo
>   By: Ed Vance to Dennis Katsonis on Thu Apr 17 2025 09:34 pm

> There are a few Australians and New Zealanders on FSX Net, but FidoNet to me
> had a strong American bent to it.  I've read posts
> here and there, but it was quite often reminiscing of things specific to
> America, products, restaurants, shows or other things that
> we just don't have in Australia.
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I was confused a little bit when reading a Wikipedia article titled 1999 Sydney
hailstorm .
A image on the page showed hailstones and a Tape Measure streached out over
some of the larger ones.

The reading on theTape Blade was in Inches.
I wondered why Inches instead of Centimeters.

 I reside in the USA and don't use the Metric System.
Years ago when I used Kodak Chemicals I remember seeing 68 degrees F / 20
degrees C on the chemical(s) instruction sheet and memorized  that conversion
when I was 13 years old.

Just wondering about that image made Me think of asking You about it.
Ed
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