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|UCREL: Linguistics & Computing |
|Bowland College, Lancaster University |
|Lancaster LA1 4YT |
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I'd like to let students in a contemporary fiction course have a look at
it. If anybody has a copy (either IBM/MSDOS or Mac) and is willing to
sell or donate it, please let me know. (Please respond e-mail rather
than through Humanist: dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu; from BITNET,
dsew%troi.cc.rochester.edu@uorvm. Thanks!)
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 17:39 PDT
From: BOYARIN@UCBCMSA
Subject: 4.0517 Computers as Tools (was 'Computers for Faculty' (2/52)
It occurs to me that maybe somebody out there can help me with what
is rapidly becoming an annoying problem. I have a 386 with two megabytes
of memory running dos 4.01. I am trying tto set up desqview 386 so that
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 21:46:49 EDT
From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear <EDITORS@BROWNVM>
Subject: 4.0544 Qs: Color Scanning; OCR; Desqview; ... (7/127)
To: Humanist Discussion <HUMANIST@BROWNVM>
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0544. Monday, 1 Oct 1990.
(1) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 17:38:25 MDT (21 lines)
From: <DMIALL@UALTAVM>
Subject: Color scanning
(2) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 90 12:32:40 EDT (29 lines)
From: ktompkin@pilot.njin.net (Ken Tompkins)
Subject: [Scanning into a Database --eds]
(3) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 10:22:00 EST (16 lines)
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: The American Prospect
(4) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 10:33:50 BST (8 lines)
From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Chinese OCR
(5) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 17:32:17 EDT (14 lines)
From: David Sewell <dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Does anyone have MindWheel?
(6) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 17:39 PDT (15 lines)
From: BOYARIN@UCBCMSA
Subject: 4.0517 Computers as Tools (was 'Computers for Faculty'
(7) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 11:58:25 WET DST (24 lines)
From: Vincent Ooi <eib014@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Information Management Systems for Schools
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 17:38:25 MDT
From: <DMIALL@UALTAVM>
Subject: Color scanning
From: David S. Miall Department of English
University of Alberta
Does anyone have experience with producing color graphics on a PC
with either a color scanner or a video digitising setup? I've been
having some difficulty getting to see anything here in Edmonton,
so its hard to evaluate the available options and cost something
that will work. I want to produce high quality images from
photographs (usually 6 x 4 inches) for display on a VGA screen.
I probably ought not to ask for more than $5000 or so (to increase
my chances of obtaining the grant that would pay for this). Is
this realistic? I'm told there's a Howtek personal scanner for
about $2800 (CAN) which scans at 300 DPI. Another possibility
is a video camera and a board, such as Targa+ -- but this seems
more expensive. If anyone has any advice to offer I'd be most
grateful (direct to me: dmiall @ ualtavm).
Regards, David Miall
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 90 12:32:40 EDT
From: ktompkin@pilot.njin.net (Ken Tompkins)
The Director of my library is about to undertake a major
(for us) archiving project. He has over 30,000 newspaper
articles on the casino industry that need to be indexed.
What he wants to index is (1) the title of the article;
(2) the date of the article; and (3) an indexing code.
His question to me was, "Is there any OCR method to read
these three items and "insert" them into a database?"
I know that our modest Kurzweil Freedom board will certainly
read the items but am fairly sure it will not insert them
into a database.
The estimated cost of keyboard input is $11,000 which seems
high to me but unlike straight typing there will be
a good deal of time spent handling the articles and finding
the items to key in.
Does anyone have any experience with such projects, with
hardware that will handle the tasks, or any other ideas
on how this part of our project might be done?
Ken Tompkins
Stockton State College
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 10:22:00 EST
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: The American Prospect
I am trying to locate a journal for which I have the folloiwng
information:
"Le professeur W. Wilson est fondateur d'une nouvelle revue
intellectuelle progressiste, _The American Prospect_, dont le premier
numero est paru en mai 1990."
Would anyone have more information about it?
Thank you,
Michael Kessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 10:33:50 BST
From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Chinese OCR
I know we've discussed OCR at length on HUMANIST, but I don't recall anyone
describing its use for Chinese/Japanese/Korean. Can anyone point me in useful
directions?
Thanks, Douglas de Lacey.
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 17:32:17 EDT
From: David Sewell <dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Does anyone have MindWheel?
I'm trying to find a copy of MindWheel, an interactive fiction game
whose text was written by poet Robert Pinsky. Broderbund released it a
few years back, but of course it's out of print (I contacted customer
service).
I'd like to let students in a contemporary fiction course have a look at
it. If anybody has a copy (either IBM/MSDOS or Mac) and is willing to
sell or donate it, please let me know. (Please respond e-mail rather
than through Humanist: dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu; from BITNET,
dsew%troi.cc.rochester.edu@uorvm. Thanks!)
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 17:39 PDT
From: BOYARIN@UCBCMSA
Subject: 4.0517 Computers as Tools (was 'Computers for Faculty' (2/52)
It occurs to me that maybe somebody out there can help me with what
is rapidly becoming an annoying problem. I have a 386 with two megabytes
of memory running dos 4.01. I am trying tto set up desqview 386 so that
I can run nota-bene and a text base on cd rom at the same time in order
to grab text from the text base to paste into my nb files. I can't seem
to get enough memory available for this. either nb or the text-base or
both die when i try to run them in desqview. also since i ran qemm 5.0
and gained thereby enough system memory to at least have my fax program
resident, my cd rom drive is flaky sometimes it runs and sometimes not.
finally i cannot do a tape backup unless i boot wwithout the qemm drivers.
quarterdeck is impossible to reach. can anybody help?
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 11:58:25 WET DST
From: Vincent Ooi <eib014@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Information Management Systems for Schools
Could anyone give me some pointers and references concerning
"database systems for schools curriculum"? Someone who teaches in a
secondary (high) school here would also appreciate knowing about
"interactive language-learning programs" (presumably those aimed at
high school students). I'll pass on any info received to
him. Many thanks.
Vincent Ooi
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|vincent b. y. Ooi |
|UCREL: Linguistics & Computing |
|Bowland College, Lancaster University |
|Lancaster LA1 4YT |
|ENGLAND (UK) |
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|E-mail(JANET)address: b.y.ooi@lancaster.ac.uk |
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