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Originally Posted by numpty
Funnily enough, decimal currency (metric) was introduced (1966) when I was still at school, whereas measurement ie mm's, klm's etc, didn't change until 1976, and I had finished my trade 6 years previously, and had to get used to a new form of measure. Not easy to do when you're indoctrinated with something else.  |
I did my trade 1965-1967. We initially used the cgs system for everything, not Imperial (a bit of a nuisance as I'd learned the MKS system in high school in Qld). However, we soon changed to MKS - about halfway through the first year.
But as my trade is electronics, MKS is appropriate.
In my job in Telstra I used km, nautical miles, nautical miles (Admiralty), and telegraph miles.
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