68020 ISA card

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 12:20:29 2001

On August 14, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> 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.

  This sounds like some boards made by Calera that I used back in '90
or so. They were pretty impressive.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
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