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@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 >
