You missed by about ten years. It was the 70's. We were supposed to be
completely converted by 1978. It didn't happen for various reasons but
superiority of the Imperial system was not one of them. On the contrary, the
metric system is far superior in many ways. The biggest reason for the
engineering community to switch to the decimal system was to gain the
advantages of the metric system without having to change to unfamiliar
units.

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Sometime or the other back in the 1960's,I think it was.There was an
effort being pushed by some @ssholes to get U.S.A.to switch over to the
metric system but it didn't wash.S...W!!!! the metric system.Our
American SAE system is the best in the World.Happy New Year,everybody.
cuhulin