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?
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Yeah, but there's at least two problems with it.
One, it's really hard to make fiche available to other people
without scanning or giving out the original, and loaning out
fiche is potentially risky and a pain in the ass to track.
Duplicating a fiche is cheap and simple. There are many Diazo based
fiche duplicators that use autofeed hoppers and make about a 2
dupes/minute. Any service bureau can do this really cheaply.