Digital BW, The Print

On 20 Sep 2004 at 10:35, bhhc wrote:
 
> Also, on the original topic, when Reagan adopted the 8.5x11 standard 
> for the government in the 80s (changing from a size the government 
> used to use before that) it was a perfect opportunity to specify 
> metric paper sizes. Another example of internal regulation that 
> ignored metric. 

This probably has a lot to do with the folks in Washington at the time, considering 
that Reagan died last year, well into his 90's, in the early 1980's he would have 
been past 70,  most of his closest advisors would have been older as well, so they 
personally unlikely understood the metric paper sizes, so they adopted what they 
knew, which was inches.  If the proposers would have presented the metric A4 size 
as 8 1/4 x 11 11/16ths they probably would have adopted it.  

W