cctech Digest, Vol 68, Issue 21

Jim Battle frustum at pacbell.net
Sun Apr 12 23:03:25 CDT 2009


Bob Stek wrote:
> I may be mistaken, but I believe that the Palantir board was one designed by
> our own Jim Battle, if it is what I think it is - a board for OCR.  (Back in
> 1987 I used the stand-alone Palantir OCR machine - a cheaper $25,000(?)
> alternative to the Kurzweil unit - to scan in 1100+ pages of all the
> Sherlock Holmes stories.  It used 5 68000 CPU's and 2 MBs of ROM IIRC.)
> 
> Any comments, Jim?

I did reply on this topic ... although I replied just to cctalk. 
sending/replying to both cctalk and cctech is bad form.


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