Microfilm (Ahem…Microfiche)
Erik and I were wandering around Scrap awhile back when he spotted
a huge stack of these orange boxes here. By themselves they’re awesome
looking, I love the double m’s in the top right.
Inside was a very long roll of microfilm, the one I got happened to
have a bunch of ladies advertisements on them. I haven’t made it all
the way through the roll, so I don’t know if there’s more in store.
these are wonderful…and to date myself – I actually used microfilm in research projects in college. Yes – back in the day where the internet was new and we were lucky to search on Netscape using dial up.
Yeah for Microfilm!! Great find!
OOOOLD.
I used microfilm once. I think. It confused me.
Coooool!
microfiche…
and you had to sign up and wait an hour + to surf on the only mac or pc for the whole university that was hooked up to a modem.
And how you had to check out the microfiche and sit there and scroll through miles and miles of film just to find a paragraph that you needed for your doublespaced wordprocessed paper with no spellcheck.
dang. oldie.
My find seems to have unearthed a bucket full of bad memories.
I apologize.
I keep coming back to this post – and staring. I love it. And I THOUGHT it was called Microfiche, but then I thought my old brain was losing it and I didn’t want to type the wrong thing and look stupid.
the microfilm room was my favorite place in the college library… and you could make laser prints for free!
hey cari – think there are any more of those still at scrap?
also – to settle the debate – microfilm comes in rolls, microfiche is on sheets.
Thank you Danny for settling that such and such. I’m not sure if they have it there still, it’s worth a shot. Be warned, we got it there quite a few months ago.
So cool.