On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, John A. Lind wrote:
> I recognize that switch!!
> It's *only* found on the rare OM-1[n] and OM-2[n] black bodies manufactured
> at Olympus' secret Wyoming factory. They had quite a problem for some time
> with the jackelope gnawing on the plastic switch levers, so the plant
> management turned it into a very special feature as a unique "designer"
> switch.
Nonsense, everyone knows that early bodies used only metal switch levers, not
plastic ones. Only those high volume "n" models used that cheap plastic stuff.
Surely the Wyoming plant (where this body must have originated) only used
switches manufactured from radioactive rare earth elements. That must explain
why the switch has deformed so badly over the years!
-mark
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