Andrew,
I've got a floppy drive on my Dell machine. Mail me your floppy and I will
send them back to you as digital files.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:12 PM
Subject: [OM] Old stuff
>
> Had a nice experience the other day. An old friend of mine, in his
> mid seventies, gave me some old cameras as he's moving house and
> cleaning out.
> One was the first camera he owned, an original early 1950's Lubitel -
> all bakelite and cyrillic.
> As a schoolboy he bought it new and paid for it by taking pictures of
> fellow students - boys for their girlfriends and vice versa.
> He apologised that the name plate was separate. Around that time the
> Petrov Affair occurred (nasty shenanigans with a defecting Russian
> diplomat), at an early peak of the Cold War and he kept getting grief
> from people over having what was clearly a commie-cam. He pulled the
> metal name plate off but still had it.
> I tried not to take it but he insisted.
> Just cleaned it up and put the name plate back on so I'm off to run a
> film through it.
>
> Incidentally, he also gave me a Mavica, the type that uses a 3.25"
> floppy disc.
> All working fine but I haven't had a bloody disc reader in years so
> it's far less useable than a 60 year old film camera!
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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