I expect 18th Cen. is even worse!
Regarding the microcard -- can you get it to a plain old fashioned scanner? I've wondered if a
really high resolution scan of one might produce a readable doc, you see.
I didn't even know what a 'microcard'
was before I started my Marital
B.S. in 19th Century Brit. Lit. (a by-product of my wife's PhD, don't you know?

)