"New" as an epithet
I used to play cards once in a while with 3 other engineers from GTE. One time we are playing at a fellows house way out of Cook county, past the Fox River (St. Charles, IL ?). It was a nice house, big and suburban. I particularly remember they had a big old GE fridge which had an internal lazy susan - very cool.
So we are playing cards and the lady of the house comes in and says something about the washer not working right and that they need a new one. The man of the house (with tongue loosened slightly by some amber liquid?) says something like: "new, new, NEW ? - that's a Maytag ! all the parts are available - it can be fixed !" His wife was unconvinced - I suspect the discussion continued later :)
I'd never heard the word "New" used in such a negative, emphatic way before, of course he was an engineer :)
Anyway, while working on yesterdays blog:
https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2024/09/diy-metering.html
I encountered this corporate Nikon camera history page:
https://imaging.nikon.com/imaging/information/chronicle/
I thought these articles are really interesting - a celebration of old over new - probably not interesting to anyone other than a Nikon fan or collector. BTW the second level Nikon SLR cameras were called Nikkormat in the US but in Japan they were Nikomat - weird but true !
And of course in the 1970s SLR fanciers had any number of choices for a camera and the lenses all had different mounts so you had to choose a company and generally you were stuck after buying extra lenses - kind of like selecting a religion :)
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
