68020 ISA card

From: Jim Tuck <technos_at_nerdland.org>
Date: Tue Aug 14 22:00:37 2001

A number of companies still make so-called scan accelerator
cards.. Kofax, Xerox, Canon.. Pretty much all they do is take
the scanned image over a SCSI connection and compress it
into a tiff or jpeg in hardware.. I've seen everything from
Phillips MIPS clones to AMD embedded processors for the
job. Never seen one based on a M68K tho.

Not too much demand for them these days. Well, considering
a PII 350 can handle 60ppm at 400dpi in software at a sane
level of system load.

Jim


On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:20 PM, Dave McGuire
[SMTP:mcguire_at_neurotica.com] wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> Laurel, MD
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