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

[J. Forster]

I just remember buying file cabinets for them.

Best,

-John

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> 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
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> >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?
>> >>
>> >
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