Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:38:05 -0700
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308211844400.7521-100000@grace.speakeasy.net> <01b401c3685c$6c8e7060$6401a8c0@Jack>

Jack

Nah!  Remember the fins on the 1949 Cadillac?  I was playing with
a Leica IIIC then. The M was not even the proverbial gleam then.

Jerry

Jack McLain wrote:

> first fins were on 57' Chevy I believe.  Not sure about the 45s (good trivia
> question)
> Jack
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Firestone" <kenf@speakeasy.net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs
>
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Mike Durling wrote:
> >
> >    Do you realize that the Leica M predates some of those things?
> >
> > Well, barely. When did the first fins show up on cars, and when did
> > the 45rpm records become available? Other stuff is all older.
> >
> >
> >    Mike D
> >
> >    Jack McLain wrote:
> >    > also AM portable radios , football helmets without face shields,
> 45rpm
> >    > records, roll film, and cars with fins
> >    > Jack McLain
> >    > Tucson, AZ
> >    > http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net
> >    >
> >    > ----- Original Message -----
> >    > From: <grduprey@rockwellcollins.com>
> >    > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> >    > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:01 AM
> >    > Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs
> >    >
> >    >
> >    >
> >    >>Yup!  Shore Do.
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>                      Seth Rosner
> >    >>                      <sethrosner@direcway.com>           To:
> >    >
> >    > leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >    >
> >    >>                      Sent by:                            cc:
> >    >>                      owner-leica-users@mejac.palo        Subject:
> Re:
> >    >
> >    > [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs
> >    >
> >    >>                      -alto.ca.us
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>                      08/20/2003 11:08 AM
> >    >>                      Please respond to
> >    >>                      leica-users
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>You guys are killing me. Does anyone remember mimeograph machines?
> Blue
> >    >>fingers? Telephones with rotary dials? Transcontinental passenger
> trains?
> >    >>Electric light bulbs? Horse as a mode of transport? ;-) luv it.
> >    >>
> >    >>----- Original Message -----
> >    >>From: "Robert VanLane" <robert@actv.ne.jp>
> >    >>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> >    >>Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:21 AM
> >    >>Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>>I remember getting the releases on the Telex (wow , those machines
> were
> >    >>>loud). I also remember setting type by hand and using the wax to
> layout
> >    >>
> >    >>the
> >    >>
> >    >>>columns.
> >    >>>But it certainly doesn't feel like a long time ago though.
> >    >>>I think my CL was new and hadn't been dropped in the lake yet.
> >    >>>My 2 M3's were already abused as they were off-duty from the news
> room.
> >    >>>
> >    >>>
> >    >>>Robert VanLane
> >    >>>
> >    >>>
> >    >>>>>I used one of those to connect to the internet for the first time.
> I
> >    >>>>>seem to remember it took me two or three days to install the
> >    >
> >    > software
> >    >
> >    >>>>>and make my first connection (using Telnet)... eventually managed
> to
> >    >>>>>connect to the Library of Congress... I was astounded. I called
> >    >>>>>everyone in the office over to look. It was as if we had contacted
> >    >>
> >    >>Mars.
> >    >>
> >    >>>>>That was less than 10 years ago.
> >    >>>>>
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>>...that is funny, because it was only about 10 years ago that I was
> >    >>>
> >    >>>getting
> >    >>>
> >    >>>>used to receiving press releases via the FAX machine. Now 90% of my
> >    >>
> >    >>press
> >    >>
> >    >>>>releases come via the internet.
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>>sl
> >    >>>>
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> ============================================================================
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> > kenf@speakeasy.net |  which is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Replies: Reply from "Jack McLain" <jmclainaz@comcast.net> (Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs)
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