Re: Micro Fische

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

"Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com> wrote:

(snip)

>>Minox Giessen, Model KL 32630.  VAG 1457.
>>
>>About $1500.  Try your local Leica camera distributor.  Leicas are even
>>more expensive than quattros.
>
>>Unless you find one in a USAF clearance sale on a UK RAF base for $5.
>
>>The fiche are 7" x 9 1/2", 42x.  No kidding.  Same as BMW motorcycles.
>
>They are as rare as a certain by-product of rocking horses.
>I managed to get a parts fiche last year and havent yet been able to find a
>reader at an affordable price. I 'inherited' about half-a-dozen desktop
>readers of this size when I joined Armstrong Patents IT department about 10
>years ago. They got labelled 'obsolete' and thrown in the trash - yes I am
>still kicking myself.

Local Coupe Club has 'em for sale here in Holland, refurbished and with (if
available) a fiche of your choice, for $200, I think. Plenty of 'em when I
asked a couple of months ago.

I'm thinking of getting one.

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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