Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-03-28 1:51 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> The rock has been lifted (again)
>>
>> DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE??????
> 
> Some of us...
> 
>> Do the math. Scanning all of that fiche is man-centuries of work with all but the most expensive equipment.
> 
> Quite.  Maybe someday 9600 dpi scan heads will be cheap, but not soon
> enough for most of us here today to care.
> 
>> That's why it hasn't been done.
> 
> Indeed.

Topical issue. Dennis Tillman just posted this on TekScopes:
https://groups.io/g/TekScopes/message/146035



> 
> I too have a quantity of fiche - some IBM from the 1980s and lots of
> DEC (70s and 80s hardware - mostly Qbus and Unibus but some VMS
> source).  I doubt I have anything unique, but it's possible a handful
> of items are not easily found.
> 
> For myself, it would be an enormous accomplishment just to make an
> index of the titles.  At least it fits in a couple of shoeboxes and
> takes up less room than paper.   The manual fiche reader itself is
> much larger than my pile of fiche, so there's that.
> 
> -ethan
>