Seen while visiting Boston Public Library. For those of you who may not recognize this device, it is a microfiche reader. Microfiche was the microformat beloved by scientists who could slip a 105 x 148 mm film under a microscope and not worry about devices such as those pictured!
Popular for directories (e.g. telephone books) and other content where random access was more important than linear reading, many find fiche much less nausea inducing!
Travel. Leisure. Pursuits
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