Archival storage

[James Fogg]

> Back in the late '60s I remember seeing a unit from IBM that 
> used film storage. The film was a small rectangle, maybe 1" x 
> 2-1/2". These were stored in magazines of some sort, IIRC. 
> They could be individually selected randomly. 
> 
> I have one of the film rectangles somewhere. When I run 
> across it again I will post a link to an image. In the mean 
> time, does this ring a bell with anyone? 


Aperture cards. An IBM punch card with a square of film in it. The punch
coding was a filing system serial number. There were variations that
looked like 35mm slides with a bigger than normal cardboard mount too.

I used to work for the Terminal Data Corp, and along with Kodak we made
90% of the microfiche/microfilm cameras in the American market. Many
other manufacturers, esp. COM systems (Computer Output to Microfilm)
used our cameras.