Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Another unit conversion Message-ID: <1344@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 00:53:04 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1344 Posted: Thu Mar 15 00:53:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 09:55:31 EST Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 23 A conversion factor which has so far been ignored: 10**8 microprograms = the National COP 400 series (hektoprogram) About two years ago, I found myself calling a salesman at the local National distributor (H-A) to ask why my order for some half-dozen or so COP 402s was two weeks overdue. I got the usual stories (you know, the ``Oh, the computer at the LA office has been down for the past three years, and...'' kind of stuff). ``Hmm,'' I mused, ``I'll bet I can guess the origin of the name COP. When you need them, you can't find them, right?'' The silence was deafening. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell