Archival storage

[Fred Cisin]

> > 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?
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, James Fogg wrote:
> 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.

Think of Emmanuel Goldberg's "Rapid Selector",
and Vannevar Bush's Memex copy of it.
(movie film microfilm, with binary optical filing data alongside)