21 Apr
2005
21 Apr
'05
6:06 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:21:51 -0400
"James Fogg" <James at jdfogg.com> wrote:
I used to work for the Terminal Data Corp. We manufactured fiche
cameras, including the one that made the original DEC fiche. We also
manufactured a fiche scanner that output via SCSI to a workstation or
Dataproducts high speed laserprinter. There aren't many dedicated
fiche scanning products made, but the TDC was one of the few.
The firm I worked for from aprox. 1978-84 produced microfiche direct
Am I right in thinking that a home flatbed scanner has
absolutely no
> hope of providing the resolution needed to scan microfiche? from data on computer tape. One of the types of camera
we used actually
contained a PDP-8 as it's embedded computer. I believe they
were
PDP-8/e's.
Now I feel like a 'villan' for being one of the fiends who trapped all
that data ON the fiche that everybody is trying to liberate it from now.