From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: beebe@math.utah.edu (Nelson H. F. Beebe) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:10:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [TUHS] microfiche scanning news Message-ID: There was a posting on the SIMH list today from Joerg Hoppe about a project to build a microfiche scanner that has now successfully converted 53,545 document pages to electronic form, and the files are being uploaded to the PDP-11 section of bitsavers.org. The scanner is described here: http://retrocmp.com/projects/scanning-micro-fiches There are links on that page to the rest of the story. It is an amazing piece of work for a single person. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe at math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe at acm.org beebe at computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------