The earliest archival-recorded R&D activity at the WLC Engineering Facility in Iowa City into the potential incorporation of CCD linear-array line-scan cameras into a new OMR Scanner product line was in early 1977, and more than ten years later, the priority was still very high on our R&D activity list. This Accession Item is a letter to JVM from Burkhard Zellner, the Marketing Manager of Fairchild Weston Instruments, Milpitas, CA. This is the company from which we purchased the CCD-array camera modules for several years, working closely with them in the specifications we required, trading liaison visits back and forth as required. Zellner paid a visit to our WLC Iowa City R&D Facility in March 1989 and had some very complimentary comments to offer in his letter following his visit. The Archival DVD Folder 1989_FAIRCHILD LETTER to JVM contains the JPEG-images of the 2-page letter, and a transcribed MS Word file 1989_03_29_FAIRCHILD LETTER to JVM_ORG.doc