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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

2010.0. "REFERENCES" by SA1794::BEANW () Wed Jul 22 1992 14:58

    Ahem!
    	Does anyone know of any online reference tables for information we
    occasionally need but never seem to have at hand?  Things like:
    
    		o  A table of conversion factors.  There was something in
    		   a VTX db, but seems to be no more.
    
    		o  A table of corporate-sanctioned mileages between DEC
    		   sites, for discretionary spending reference.  (US, of
    		   course)
    
    		o  A temperature-conversion table, for those who don't
    		   like math.  F to C, and vice-versa...
    
    There may be more that others would like to see -- all inquiries
    accepted here.  How about a table of thermal cooefficients for
    different materials?	/wlb

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2010.1		ACOSTA::MIANO	John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr	`Wed Jul 22 1992 15:48`	1
	It sound like you need a copy of the CRC Handbook.
2010.2		NSDC::RATCLIFF	Heisenberg may have been here	`Thu Jul 23 1992 04:45`	7
	Try "The Economist Desk Companion", beautiful, leather-bound, expensive (~35�), 400-odd pages on conversion factors for just about almost any unit ever used to measure something somewhere (from metric equivalents of Roman or medieval measurements for wine or wheat to US-metric nuts diameters). John.
2010.3	Economics--Economics-Economics-Economics	HEFTY::BEANW		`Thu Jul 23 1992 15:55`	8
	Ahem, again... I'm trying to get out of this without spending any money ... and offer DECnoters some info to solve the original problem -- rarely-used data occasionally needed, at hand, online. Besides, in my particular case I've been moving around a lot lately and prefer to travel light. I don't really want to bring in any part of my home library, except for that which is often needed. Any way to import this stuff from an external database?? /wlb
2010.4		FROST::WALZ	Gary Walz	`Fri Jul 24 1992 12:48`	20
	Years ago when I worked for General Electric, we had these really nifty little pocket reference guides that fit into one-half of a pocket calendar. It had a lot of the type of stuff that you were looking for - conversion factors, periodic table of the elements, mileage, time zones, etc. The whole calendar/guide fit nicely right behind your requisite pocket protector with the steel scale and 14 mechanical pencils you carried everywhere you went. Somewhere I think I still have one of the refence guides. Wish I could get a pocket calendar as a companion still. Of course, I'd have to find some pocket protectors somewhere... -gary
2010.5		CFSCTC::GERMAIN	He's the Iceman - a Hunter!	`Fri Jul 24 1992 14:28`	6
	Gary, I still have my Pratt & Whitney pocket reference.... ;^) Gregg
2010.6		MEMIT::CANSLER		`Mon Jul 27 1992 09:29`	3
	I still have my Dupont and Allen Bradley too!