68020 ISA card

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 11:57:54 2001

IIRC, it's possible it's associated with scanner/OCR processes. One of my
colleagues had a set of three or four ISA cards, each of which had four 68030's
on it, each with what I then saw as a significant amount of RAM for its task.
He was using that together with a pretty fancy set of software for a MAJOR
automatic transcription task, and, from what I gathered, it did a good job.

I don't know about your board, but the ones I saw were fully packed on both
sides. It was, for the time, VERY impressive to see. The results were pretty
impressive, too, as he'd converted about 6000 pages of text into a searchable
document on a set of CD's.

Kurzweil is associated with speech-to-text and similar processing tasks, (see
www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html ) and multi-processor boards are known to
speed such tasks up.

Dick
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From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus_at_canit.se>
To: "Classic computing" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: 68020 ISA card


> Found an interesting card in the trays of a small computer shop. It's an 8-bit
> card with a 68020 on it. The card is full-length, with a piece sandwiched onto
> it at one end. It's by a Xerox company with a German name; Kurzweil?
> Any leads as to what this might be?
>
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