At 11:17 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, jerome wrote:

>From the magazine (July / August issue):

 Those who will bitch and moan about backwards compatibility are likely
the same old farts that wouldn�t have bought the camera anyway, unless it was
to be found at a yard sale or on eBay for 20% of retail. Pentax was smart not
to design this beauty with those folks in mind.

Okay� Okay�. !! The last two sentences weren�t in the article� You can call
that my editorial additions.


Har!

But look what a search of *ist on ebay brings up:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=*ist

Maybe that is the real story behind the name - if you can't find it on eBay, people might actually buy it new....

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