Kimmel, Richard H SAW schrieb:
> Years ago (OK, many years ago) Radio Shack made a metric conversion
> calculator.  It is still the "handiest tool in my shed."  It had two buttons
> on top, "from M" and "to M" and 15 preset conversion choices (e.g.
> Fsq<>Msq). Otherwise it was a very basic calculator, without other
> scientific notation.  Does anyone know if such a calculator is still made?
>

haven't seen anything of late; mostly just euro-calculators (DM or francs or
pesetas to euros) -
        there is a very helpful conversion tool in a program i have called
"sidekick" - i have the 1998 version - temperatures, area, electrical
resistance, you name it, it seems to be able to convert it -


geoff carver
http://home.t-online.de/home/gcarver/
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