It's true Dave. There is very little space for storage (I visited in
1998 to buy a Mint secondhand OM2N) and Ian isn't really an
archivist. He is the editor of the magazine and he runs the Olympus
Camera Club, probably on a shoestring from Olympus UK. The only
brochures that he can send out with the magazine (quarterly) is the
ghastly in-house thing which I have quoted from before.
He is a nice enough chap, but he obviously does not get enough
resources or staff to do the collecting thing. I blame Olympus, we
normally do ;-).
Chris
At 19:57 -0400 16/08/01, DBellamy2k@xxxxxxx wrote:
Yes, well I can say that his reply to me a couple of months ago refarding old
brochures was basically: oh, I'll quote it, hang on ...
<< Sorry, unable to assist with this request. Space, especially storage
space,
is at a premium and we can't keep everything.
Thx, Ian Aston, Olympus User Magazine. >>
Kind of great attitude from their archivist! "We've thrown it all away" or
maybe alias "You're not having any - I can't see any from where I'm sitting."
snip...
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