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Originally Posted by HarryT
That was essentially a hand-held microfiche reader. I'm not sure there are many people here who'd regard microfiche machines as bookreaders. Heck, there are probably some of our younger members who've never even used microfiche  . |
Depends what you mean by used (not claiming to be young btw!) In my first job all the mainframe session logs were archived onto microfiche. But I was never allowed to "use" the reader or the fiches, that would involving handling sacred objects I was unworthy to touch as a lowly programmer. I could stand over the operator whilst he twiddled the knobs for me in response to my carefully polite requests (you never got on the wrong side of an operator if you knew what was good for you).