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

[Geoffrey Oltmans]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> 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)
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> >> DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE??????
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> > Some of us...
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> >> Do the math. Scanning all of that fiche is man-centuries of work with
> all but the most expensive equipment.
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> > 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.
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> I wonder if you could use a photographic enlarger and a flatbed scanner to
> do this.
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