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Wednesday, 6 August 2003
Cool find

This evening, Karen and I stopped by the Museum Store in the mall, which is well on its way out of business. Very slim pickings in there by now, but while looking around the mostly empty shelves, we noticed a small microfiche reader with a $20 price tag on it.

Knowing that Sid had recently received some nifty materials which included a sheet of microfiche, we called and asked if she wanted it. (She did.) The store had bought it for their opening inventory, and hadn't even turned it on since then. The salesman said it was the one item he'd been sure would be left behind when they closed the doors for the final time (even shelves and display stands were selling).

I tested it out when we got home, to make sure it worked. Lacking any microfiches to put in it, I used the frames from the animated Star Trek that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Nice magnification on that thing; with a single 35mm frame showing an overhead shot of the Enterprise bridge, the navigation station with Lieutenants Arex and Sulu filled the entire display.

And Lt. M'ress, despite only being 4mm high on the film, blew up to an appreciable size on the reader. I wonder if she was the first "Furry" ever drawn? I tried looking it up on Google, but the result synopses scared me.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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Now, we must own more microfiche! Perhaps we will have microfiche viewing parties? Perhaps there will be a new standard of documentation for art-sci- microfiche to truly save room. Or perhaps if the docos are more than 10 pages long they will be required to be on mirofiche. There are so many possibilities! Dr. Bug will be thrilled!
Thanks guys!

BTW, what would one wear to a microfiche party and what booze would be served?
Sid
Posted by Sid on 7 Aug 2003 05:31
Miniskirts and microbrews!

Posted by Godfrey on 7 Aug 2003 06:23
So I guess they are all sold out of those cool Etruscan horses by now? That's what happens when you don't want to spend $90 on one when it's already on sale.
Posted by Lisa on 7 Aug 2003 07:09
I didn't see any horses. They did have a couple of big leather books (photo albums?) with a Florentine fleur embossed on the cover.

Posted by Godfrey on 7 Aug 2003 07:56
Got one of those!
Posted by Lisa on 7 Aug 2003 09:01
M'ress - that's what happens when the cat throws up a hairball!

I slay me!
Posted by Ginevra on 7 Aug 2003 11:58