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The reason that Nikon meters read backwards in the old days is that they follow the aperture ring on older lenses. There is no custom function for flipping the meter scale in any analog body, and it wasn't possible in the early digitals either. It wasn't until the D3/D300 generation this became a reality.
Might as well be familiar with it, it gets only a couple of shots until it gets normal to read!