Microfilm Finds New Uses Across Homes Schools and Offices
Microfilm is used to store recipes by housewives and to replace textbooks for third graders in New Hampshire. Britannica develops a Microbook Library with 20 000 volumes in box sized files. The U S Government Printing Office plans micropublication of 75 million documents yearly. Advances in low cost readers and computer interfacing boost the microfilm business, with speeds up to 96 000 characters per second from computers and banks filming checks at 600 per minute. Microfilm promises rapid, economical information storage and retrieval across government, business, schools, and households.
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Microfilming Spurs Growth in Data Archiving
A department store loss prompts records disappearance but microfilming saves most credits. Middlesex County plans to microfilm deeds from the Revolutionary era. France’s British Aviation and Sud Aviation build Concorde prototypes with extensive drawings. Boeing and Westinghouse rely on microfilm for engineering records. The CATALIST project sizes show large, category spanning microfilm use. Analysts forecast microfilm business to reach 1.025 billion by 1975.
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