On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > $15,000 for a used Mekel microfiche scanner in the early-2000's
Oof! > It turned out to be just past prototype stage, was missing the pneumatic > fiche handler > and never really got it working at production volumes. The small number of > fiche scans > on bitsavers from around then was the sum total of the output. Bummer. > I've probably spent more money trying to deal with scanning microfiche than > on any single > project beyond acquiring documents to scan. If you or anyone ever comes up with a solution, like many of us, I have kilograms of the stuff - DEC and IBM for me, mostly mid-1980s. Probably very little if any of it unique, but if I really need to look up the engineering docs for a Unibus peripheral or want to browse VMS source code prior to 5.0, there it is. -ethan
