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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
John V reminded me of a couple more:
Anybody remember the old "microfiche" readers? Those blue, stiff transparencies that you put in a special machine to be able to read?
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I remember making the microfiche out of 16 mm film. Our first machine was an EBR (electron beam recorder) then came the LBR (laser ........). We fed blank 16 mm film in to it and hung the tapes that contained parts lists etc on the readers and then the machines wrote the data onto the film.
Depending on........ We would either load the 16 mm film into cartridges or spools to be read by 16 mm film readers or the film originals were loaded into sleeves and microfiches were duped from the stacked film..
We had fiche readers all over the building too. There were some reader printers here an there but many of them used silver based paper and the prints were outrageously expensive. (50 cents to a dollar a print) And, the paper had a very short life span so we might discard thousands of dollars worth of expired paper each year in order to keep some fresh paper on hand.
KTF
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