Xerox SIS: On-Demand Publishing for US Army (Project Update)

Xerox SIS
Pasadena, CA
1985

Integrated a Dandelion workstation with a Kurzweil page scanner and custom software to create the prototype of the custom workstation type used to import and maintain the US Army Technical Library in the Xerox Star environment for Project Update.

Trained at PARC on Mesa Obect Oriented Pascal and Dandilion 29000 bitslice microcode. Designed a page scanner server based on the Dandilion workstation. Developed high-speed block transfer microcode for the parallel port. Utilized numerous Xerox Hacks for automating OCR, Star document merging, and Interpress printing.