Missouri Horsepower

[Duke W.]

Re: (Federal) Taxable Horsepower (MSO)

It tried - "hold alt key - type 0178 - release alt key" and didn't get the 2 exponent. What am I missing?

BTW, is this scheme HTML or some other internal program?

Duke

[Duke W.]

Re: (Federal) Taxable Horsepower (MSO)

Fortunately, I'm not old enough either to have licensed a car based on taxable horsepower, but my dad explained the term to me when I first came across it as a teenager. Even at that point in the mid-sixties it was considered mostly obsolete, but a few states may have continued to use it, so GM continued to specify taxable horsepower for each model.

I AM old enough to have used a slide rule through my MSME in 1970. By the time I started business school at UCLA in 1975 I had one of them new fangled calculators.

I learned Fortran on an IBM 7094 as an undergrad and wrote a Fortran program for a Univac 1108 to solve the fluid mechanics problem that was my master's thesis.

Duke

[Tony H.]

Re: (Federal) Taxable Horsepower (MSO)

The number sequence you type with the alt key pressed must be from the key pad, not the numbers across the top of the keyboard. Does that help? How about the Alt 253. Did that one work? If not, we can take this discussion off line. Email me.

[Duke W.]

[Larry P.]

OK, now?

In my business, way back, memory was stored on totalizers (mechanical)
I'm still in the same business and now we use programmable flash PROMs!
You can use 255 on the keypad to create a blank in a file name for security
purposes(or, you could in DOS)
Now,
How come my 283 is listed at 51?
Larry

[Wayne M.]

Should divide by 2.5 (not 2.0) *NM*

[Wayne M.]

A 283 cu.in. should be 48.05 taxable hp *NM*

[Duke W.]

[Duke W.]

Re: OK, now?

It's a mistake. Run the formula for a 3.875" bore (283) and you get 48.05; for a 4" bore (327, 350) and you get 51.2.

Maybe you're owed a big tax refund.

Duke

[Craig S.]

Re: (Federal) Taxable Horsepower (MSO)

I had an HP45....new fangled version of the HP35. Still have it!....love that RPN....got me through my BSEE.....Craig

[Doug Flaten]

Re: OK, now?

The ST12 lists the taxable HP for the 283 at 48 HP.

[Norbert R.]

Re: Missouri Horsepower

My 60' 6500 redline/FI is listed as MO57 also.
Good luck.