Jody, I sent you an AMICA application packet around the end of November.
If you don't get it soon let me know and I'll send another.  Maybe its
time for AMICA to have an on-line application?  I enjoy the Digest and I
think you are doing a great job of providing a forum for those interested
in exploring and preserving the player era.

I have been following Spencer Chase's project with roll scanning or
reading.  I had a similar idea in mind, only using a small unit that both
sends light and detects it.  I was going to use fiber optic tubes run in
to the back of the tracker bar.  Of course it would reflect from the
paper, and not reflect from a hole.  It would require shielding from
external light, of course.

Later a friend told me I should use a video camera and he would write a
program that would read the holes in the video image in the graphic file.
I think resolution might suffer, depending on the lens used.

Bill Chapman¶
AMICA Membership Sect'y¶
shazam@28bbl.wa.com