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Re: [OM] identify this cord, please

Subject: Re: [OM] identify this cord, please
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:45:44 -0700
At 07:17 AM 12/02/99 -0500, Paul Schings wrote:
>In a message dated 2/12/99 6:19:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
><< One connector fits nicely into the round hole at the bottom of a Winder
> :1 (in the center of the selector dial - SINGLE<->OFF).  It is barrel
> shaped.
> :The other connector has what appears to be a cable release.  It screws
> :neatly into the shutter release of an OM1-MD and has a sliding pin
> :suitable for releasing the shutter. >>
>
>Perhaps the end that fits into the winder power connector is not an electrical
>connector at all, but just happens to fit there. Maybe it's just an old cable
>release that lost it's plunger in some tragic accident?

That was my most immediate suspicion, but I didn't write about it.  I like 
Hans' answer though: some kind of homebrew designed to test the average 
intelligence of list members (I failed, obviously...).

Garth

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