Microfiche scanning

[Tony Duell]

> Second, it's much easier - for me at least - to flip through a PDF than 
> it is to flip through microfiche.  Right now, I don't have a fiche 
> viewer at home (despite the DEC MDS fiche I now have) so I have to make 

I'm the reverse. I have a fiche reader here (it meets my criterion of 
being possible to repair :-)), I have no easy way to 'flip through' pdfs 
(and I certainly don't feel like downloading them on a 14K4 modem...)

I've found that I can tell what the pages on a fiche are -- whether they 
are text, program source, or diagrams with my naked eye. Very useful to 
see if a given fiche contains the schematics...

> a trip to the library to view it.  It's much easier to print out a few 
> pages of a PDF (or all of it) and bring it with me to look at, than it 
> is to haul around a microfiche reader... 

It's a pity standard fiche is larger than 5*4"....

-tony