12 Jan
2017
12 Jan
'17
1:08 p.m.
$15,000 for a used Mekel microfiche scanner in the early-2000's
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.
I scrapped it last summer.
I've probably spent more money trying to deal with scanning microfiche than on any
single
project beyond acquiring documents to scan.
On 1/12/17 12:35 PM, Andy Cloud wrote:
If you're willing to answer it would also be
interesting to know what drove
you to spend as much as you did on that particular computer?