[T3] Microfiche

[Jeremy Menzies]

Hello Bob,

If you would be willing to part with your set of 'fiche for a little while for me to make a go at scanning and getting them together in a pdf file, I'd be happy to pay for media mail shipping and even give you a little something as a 'rental' fee, if you want.  Seeing Jacin's post about the Type 3 Wiki, this could be a great addition to that page.  I'm imagining being able to make a single file that one would be able to page through in a pdf reading program (like Adobe Acrobat Reader or apple's Preview).  If this turns out to be the case, perhaps it could be made available for download from the wiki site (I'm not good with web design, so I'm not sure how well that would work).  I guess in some ways it would be a little redundant to have the 'fiche when he's got the parts catalog up on the wiki but it would be nice to have something that people could put on their computers and be able to look at multiple pages more easily, as with a book.

Let me know what you think and I can send you my address.

Thanks,Jeremy
SF, CA'71 Squareback, MT, FI

> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:52:30 -0800
> From: gizmobob at gmail.com
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Microfiche
> 
> I believe that I possess this much sought-after urban legend of a find...
> not sure what years it covers... I purchased this years ago. I even bought
> the microfiche machine... for that authentic vintage VW experience [?]
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Jeremy Menzies <skellzangelz at hotmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > So, I was looking through my friend's Porsche 'microfiche' (digitized
> > version) and really wanting the equivalent for the Type 3's.  I've looked
> > around online and seen the CDROM's that Bentley sells (for $110!) but I
> > thought I'd make a proposition on the list. I work in a photo archive and
> > have access to a very high quality scanner and scanning software and am
> > adept at operating both.  I was thinking if anyone has a real (as in film)
> > set of 'fiche for the T-3's (any/all years) to lend, I could scan them and
> > make a multi-page pdf for people to have a digital copy of.  I realize that
> > if such a set existed, one might not want to let it leave the house but I
> > think it would be really useful to make it available to people on the list
> > and I'm not interested in trying steal someone's 'fiche.  I know I spend a
> > while searching catalogues to figure out part numbers (if I don't have
> > them) and just having the exploded view drawings is very helpful.On the
> > other hand, if anyone has one of th
> >  e CDROM versions, could you tell me what type of file(s) they use?
> >  They're made for use on Windows and I use a Mac but if I could convert the
> > files to a universally recognized format, I'd be willing to just buy the CD
> > and convert it to use on my computer.  I can also imagine that the CD runs
> > like a program and may not have individual files for each sheet of 'fiche.
> >  Thought I'd ask and see if anyone had it and could let me know how it
> > works/what the files are.Just an idea I thought I'd throw out there.-Jeremy
> > SF, CA'71 Squareback, MT, FI
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