17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
1:51 p.m.
Back in May I said
Some microfiches of Tek manuals, including a large
number of issues of
the 4050 Series Software Library Newsletter (later Tekniques magazine).
It was one of these that I printed out in order to type in the
Christmas card program.
The microfiches were given me by someone in Tek UK when I was
researching the talk I gave at the VCF in Santa Clara in 1998. I never
wrote and thanked them, for which I feel horribly guilty.
If someone has the equipment to scan microfiches, and is prepared to put
in the time to sort the stuff and get it online, I shall be happy to
hand them over. I could probably scan some manuals too - I think the
scanner at work will do the A3 or ANSI B pages.
I've found my Tek microfiche collection!
Twenty-nine fiches (although some have only a few sheets, and one has
only a single sheet) with marketing announcements, brochures, manuals,
and a lot of back issues of the 4050 series newsletter (which later
became Tekniques magazine)
I'd like to see this preserved - does anyone have a scanner that will do
fiche, and the time to work on these to get good quality scans? If so,
I'll lend you the fiches.
The size reduction seems to be about 24 times, so to get the equivalent
of 400dpi from the originals you need to scan at 9600dpi. I'm not sure
whether the quality is there, though.
(I just asked my scanner to have a go at the first page, and it's been
sitting thinking about it for nearly half an hour now. I think that's
because it has to synthesise the higher resolutions from several scans,
or something, but even so.)
Philip.