Microfiche scanning

[James Fogg]

> > Sheesh, why is everyone treating fiche as a horrible thing? 
> Like it's 
> > some terrible, embarrassing obsolete medium that needs to 
> be converted 
> > out of as quickly as possible?
> <snip>
> 
> Yeah, but there's at least two problems with it.
> 
> One, it's really hard to make fiche available to other people 
> without scanning or giving out the original, and loaning out 
> fiche is potentially risky and a pain in the ass to track.  

Duplicating a fiche is cheap and simple. There are many Diazo based
fiche duplicators that use autofeed hoppers and make about a 2
dupes/minute. Any service bureau can do this really cheaply.