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Photography by Mister Jalopy

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THE MICRODOODLE

image Convert an old-school microfiche reader into a magnifying machine.

By Mister Jalopy

What is a microdoodle? Well, I made the term up! It’s a microfiche reader recast as a social magnifying machine!

Before the internet, businesses used microfiche (pronounced micro-feesh) machines to read transparencies of documents shrunk to micro-size. Real estate agents consulted city plat maps, and libraries had newspapers ...

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