9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
2:10 p.m.
Back in the late '60s I remember seeing a unit
from IBM that
used film storage. The film was a small rectangle, maybe 1" x
2-1/2". These were stored in magazines of some sort, IIRC.
They could be individually selected randomly.
I have one of the film rectangles somewhere. When I run
across it again I will post a link to an image. In the mean
time, does this ring a bell with anyone?
Aperture cards. An IBM punch card with a square of film in it. The punch
coding was a filing system serial number. There were variations that
looked like 35mm slides with a bigger than normal cardboard mount too.
I used to work for the Terminal Data Corp, and along with Kodak we made
90% of the microfiche/microfilm cameras in the American market. Many
other manufacturers, esp. COM systems (Computer Output to Microfilm)
used our cameras.