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. 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
