[Milsurplus] Defense Department Drawings found on Computer cards - ?

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Tue Dec 18 11:59:24 EST 2012


Well, then that's probably what size they are.  I didn't pull a packet out 
and measure them, but was just thinking back to when I last looked at one 
probably a decade ago.

In a message dated 12/18/2012 10:44:00 AM Central Standard Time, 
jfor at quikus.com writes: 
> The only fiche I ever saw were standard 4x5 index card size. There were
> often stored in card file cabinets.
> 
> -John
> 
> ================
> 
> 
> 
> >The only archiving that I am aware of was to microfiche but not on
> >aperture
> >cards.  The ones that I got from NTIS between 1989 (or probably earlier,
> >that's about as far back as my A/P records go) and 1995 were film roughly
> >3x4
> >with a white or yellow strip across the top.  In the 80's and back I was
> >still getting original hard copy.  The first one that I got was on the
> >I-199,
> >which is a WW-II vintage dynamotor and generator tester.  At the time I
> >first
> >ordered the manual originals still existed but had for some dumb reason
> >been classified above my pay grade.  By the time I got around that, only
> >the
> >fiche were available.
> >
> >In a message dated 12/18/2012 09:26:42 AM Central Standard Time,
> >ma.locksmith at juno.com writes:
> >>>3.  I wonder, question, if the WWII TM manuals were ever archived in
> >>>
> >>>this manner using IBM style punchcards?
> >>
> >
> >Robert Downs - Houston
> >wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> >MVPA 9480

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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