[222mhz] Old Negative conversion?

[The Soltoff's]

In true Packrat, I rarely (if ever) throw anything out.  Recently, while looking for some old prints, I found my (large) box of old negatives ( remember them, before the world went digital ?).  Some of them even go back to the old 2 x 3-1/2 black and white image negatives 

  

I knew that I had been saving them, in hopes of someday wanting to convert them to digital format to be able to print or view as a slide-show.  Well, that day is here. 

  

I'm looking for a way (hopefully quick, cheap and easy) to convert these negative images to positives, in digital files. 

  

The only thing I can think of to do the picture inversion is to use a printing enlarger (or slide projector, since many are 35 mm) projector to invert, then photograph the projected image.  In fact I acquired a printing projector a number of years ago in anticipation of starting the task.  But it would be lots of work (individually loading each negative image), and probably wouldn't yield the resolution that I'm looking for. It also wouldn't accommodate the non-35mm negatives. 

  

I figure that someone in the Packrat fraternity either has done this task, or has a good suggestion on how to proceed . 

  

All suggestions are welcome. 

  

Thanks, 

  

K3IUV, Bert