12 Jan
2017
12 Jan
'17
1:08 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
$15,000 for a used Mekel microfiche scanner in the
early-2000's
Oof!
It turned out to be just past prototype stage, was
missing the pneumatic fiche handler
and never really got it working at production volumes. The small number of fiche scans
on bitsavers from around then was the sum total of the output.
Bummer.
I've probably spent more money trying to deal with
scanning microfiche than on any single
project beyond acquiring documents to scan.
If you or anyone ever comes up with a solution, like many of us, I
have kilograms of the stuff - DEC and IBM for me, mostly mid-1980s.
Probably very little if any of it unique, but if I really need to look
up the engineering docs for a Unibus peripheral or want to browse VMS
source code prior to 5.0, there it is.
-ethan