21 Apr
2005
21 Apr
'05
4:57 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:28 +0100, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Apr 21 2005, 10:49, Jules Richardson wrote:
Yep, as I suspected :( I get the impression that some scanning firms
that say they can handle fiche are probably only running things through
a normal scanner too...
We do have what looks to be a reader with integral printer, which is an
interesting beastie - but it all looks rather battered and rusty (maybe
it sat outside at some point in its life). I don't hold out much hope of
it working again...
Am I right in thinking that a home flatbed scanner has absolutely no
hope of providing the resolution needed to scan microfiche?
We've got a *lot* of DEC documentation arrived on fiche (208 pages
per
fiche, estimated 25000 sheets) and scanning some
of the more useful
bits
would be nice. So far the cost from commercial
companies has either
been
too high or the quality has been far too low to
actually be useful
:-(
Sadly, you'll find normal scanners all have the "too low resolution"
problem to handle fiche. Have you got much XXDP fiche?
I'll have a look... hard to tell what there is at the moment. Certainly
a lot of -11 stuff and peripherals, along with some -8 bits (which
implies that DEC made an effort to go back and transfer some of their -8
paper docs to fiche at some point). Supposedly we've got everything
that was ever released on fiche by DEC, but I doubt there's any record
of exactly what that is anywhere...
cheers
Jules