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From: bep9518@vaxa.isc.rit.edu (Techno Destructo)
Subject: Re: what is a digital caliper?
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In article <KARL.4.00004ECB@innet.be>, KARL@innet.be (Karl Lambrechts) writes:
>I see many different articles about this , but what is a caliper? How does it 
>present itself?
>
>Many thanks
>
>Karl

	Karl,
		Methinks they are referring to the digital vernier caliper,
that is, a sliding caliper for measuring distances (similar to a micrometer
but not based on a thread) that has a digital output.  I've seen them reigged
to a special portable demi-computer of sorts that later can be connected to a
pc so that the data can be uploaded into a spread sheet.  The advantage is that
the person using the digital caliper had a foot pedal to read in the succesive
numbers, so he could work much faster than if he were to write each number
down.

							-Brace

