-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Wright <swright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 31 March 1998 9:13
Subject: Re: [OM] Interesting quote from MP
<On 29 Mar 98 at 23:24, R. Lee Hawkins wrote:
<> Hi all:
<> Here's one the short news notes I ran across about Oly in MP
(4/73
<> p.12):
<>
<> "Olympus President Ken Kambe: The M-1 is the hope on which we
will
....
<> "As for Pocket Instamatics we would not touch it at present. As
....
<Hmm....
<Two things I noticed here - the obvious one is that Oly has done in
complete
<about face since this statement with respect to "Pocket
Instamatics".
<
....
<Shawn Wright
...
Wasn't a reference to Pocket Instamatics in those days meaning 110
and 126 format cameras. Pentax and Minolta came with posh 110 SLRs
and Olympus did not
cheers
bgt
-- Sig --- ( I'm the most modest <modestestest> man in the world ! )
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