OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:40 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 6/28/19 12:18 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
> >
> > FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
> > bedroom dresser.  There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
> > the other from 1983.  I suspect that a great many are still in
> > circulation.
>
> For those who have never seen a Kennedy half-dollar, it's a coin that,
> according to my pocket tape rule is about 1 1/8 inch or 29 mm in
> diameter, featuring a profile of JFK on one side and the Great Seal of
> the US on the reverse.
>

Yea, I'm just the right age to have seen them in circulation and have it as
a unit of measure for "just bigger than an inch". Sorry for the crazy
measurement...

Warner