Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Used M
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 23:24:22 -0500
 
It's not horsepuckie- it's
Scientific notation for 1,000,000 dollars....
Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Cc: Dale R. Reed <dale-reed@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Used M

>At 01:42 PM 12/24/97 -0800, Dale Whatever wrote:
>>The Navy winterized all their cameras.  As I remember they removed most
>>of the oil but what the heck, at about a $1E6 cost per man/year for the
>>International Geophysical Year the cameras could be thrown away after
>>their duty on the ice.
>
>
>Good God man, don't play games, please. WHATEVER does this cryptic
>bureaucratic horsepuckie "$1E6 cost per man/year" mean to the rest of us?
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>