Microfilm!
May. 15th, 2012 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aUsed a microfilm machine this evening at the library! I should have taken a picture of the antiquated hardware! It took three (entirely helpful and nice) librarians to get the system working. I think I was the most bemused when I asked where I'd be printing to and the librarian pointed to the printer under the table that was a part of the whole microfilm machinery.
"I think printing somewhere else is a newer network thing," she said, and of course she was right.
The object of the exercise was a sensationalistic and semi-hysterical article that a magazine called New West published in 1980. One hour and eighty cents later, I had it. It offered some nice details on RPG life in the alien world of 1980, and I got some specific quotes and data for the article I'm working on about Grimoire Games.
I am now drunk with microfilm power and planning to see what other mass-market articles I might find when I do a big revision of Designers & Dragons, down the road.
To start with, I've learned that my friend Dana Lombardy did a series of articles in Model Retailer in the late '70s about the emergence of the hobby. That'd be a fine thing to read!
"I think printing somewhere else is a newer network thing," she said, and of course she was right.
The object of the exercise was a sensationalistic and semi-hysterical article that a magazine called New West published in 1980. One hour and eighty cents later, I had it. It offered some nice details on RPG life in the alien world of 1980, and I got some specific quotes and data for the article I'm working on about Grimoire Games.
I am now drunk with microfilm power and planning to see what other mass-market articles I might find when I do a big revision of Designers & Dragons, down the road.
To start with, I've learned that my friend Dana Lombardy did a series of articles in Model Retailer in the late '70s about the emergence of the hobby. That'd be a fine thing to read!