22 Apr
2005
22 Apr
'05
4:11 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 21:41 -0700, Tom Jennings wrote:
Sheesh, why is everyone treating fiche as a horrible
thing? Like
it's some terrible, embarrassing obsolete medium that needs to be
converted out of as quickly as possible?
Fiche is great. Keep in clean and dry in a dark place and it will
last for hundreds of years. It's not like it's an old floppy or
something.
As Eric said (so eloquently!), it's more a case of fiche making it
harder to make the docs available to others. We've *probably* got
everything in paper format as well as fiche (if not more) - but it'd be
nice if we could make what we have available to others and fill some
gaps in what's available online.
I was hoping that there would be an easy way of scanning lots of fiche
(as it's not in bound format which lends itself toward being fed
unattended through a device) but it seems not (at least not without Al's
gadget :-)
cheers
Jules