1950 Rev. Documentation 17 216/1 Perhaps the French decision of reserving the word microcard for the opaque microcopy and using microfiche for the transparency may show us the way.

1953 Libr. Sci. Abstr. 193 The translucent microfiche is considered by some people to be better than the opaque microcard.

1967 J. R. U. Page in A. de Reuck & J. Knight Communication in Sci. 151 Master microfiche are made for NASA and the Space Documentation Service.

1970 Libr. Assoc. Rec. Mar. 97/1 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration..makes available microfiches of the documents.

1990 Esquire May 35/2 Suddenly the box scores seem to be printed on microfiche.

1974 N.Y. Times 6 May 42/1 Penn State took the overall award for its microfiche reader that would enable firemen to study a building's pre-filed floor plan, dangers and contents while they were on the way to a fire.

1976 Economist 1 May 98/3 A search remains cheap: the fee is still just 5p and the user is allowed to keep the fiche. This will encourage users to shell out £50 for a cheapish microfiche reader.

1993 Macworld Dec. 169/1 A simple word search can return a list of documents so long you'll wish you were back at the microfiche reader.

1998 Paper Focus Aug. 21 (heading) So-called professional advice in the 1970s caused libraries to buy microfiche readers and audio cassettes instead of books.

1975 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 35 176 Each serial is listed in the appendix by the identification number under which it has been microfiched in the joint Cornell/Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology/Inter Documentation Company microfiche project.

1979 Courtauld Inst. Art Rep. 1978/9 16 During the year the microfiche project..has advanced and now the whole of the British School and part of the French School has been microfiched.

1985 Offshore May 270/1 All documentation is being microfiched, and when development ends all tapes and fiches will be handed over to the operating group to assist such activities as maintenance.

1999 Pract. Family Hist. Oct. 8/2 The tithe maps have now been microfiched for English counties B to M, except Leicestershire.