On August 15, Bob Stek wrote:
> If it's a Calera board, it was designed by our own Jim Battle (come on
> out and take a bow, Jim!).
Kick ass! Great job, Jim! I was really impressed with that board.
It did a wonderful job, and seemed very well-designed.
> Semi-OT Small World Dept. - In 1987 I used a Palantir OCR unit (5 68000
> CPU's and 2MB ROM code) to convert all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories into
> machine readable ASCII format (sold several hundred copies of 'An
> Electronic Holmes Companion.') Soon after, Palantir was bought by
> Calera, and Jim Battle designed the ASIC for their board. Nearly 10
> years later I hook up with Jim Battle when I send him a copy of the Sol
> User's Manual, and he remembers having heard about this guy who used the
> Palantir to scan the Holmes stories!
Interesting...the Calera board and software that I used created
".pda" files...for "Palantir Document Architecture".
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
Received on Wed Aug 15 2001 - 21:18:51 BST