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70 -- CALERA MM2400 ENGINE SUBSYSTEM FOR ATTACHMENT TO VAX CLUSTER SOL DE-AC05-95MA40118 POC Contact Point, Beth L. Holt 615/576-0644, Contracting Officer, W. A. Mynatt, 615/576-0651 Notice of intent to purchase, by competitive sealed bid, a Calera MM2400 Engine with workstation to increase the throughput of the existing networked Calera OCR configuration. The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Scientific and TechnicalIn formation (OSTI) intends to award a contract for a Calera MM2400 Engine or equal and workstation meeting the following requirements: (1) Calera MM2400 Engine consisting of four RISC processors, each with a speed of up to 600 characters per second inconv erting images to machine-readable form with capabilities of accepting input in TIFF Uncompressed, TIFF Packbits, TIFF Modified Group 3 (CCITT Group 3), TIFF Group 4 (CCITT Group 4), PCX, and DCX formats, providing feature extraction with context anddict ionary analysis, reads non-stylized fonts, such as typewritten, typeset, laser print, draft dot-matrix and encompasses 6-28 point monospaced and proportional spacing; decolumnization; processes tables, and columns; handles zones, such as text, image andnumeric; and processes landscape and rotated pages; (2) Workstation with tower cabinet containing an Energy-Star compliant 486 DX/66 MHz processor personal computer including 16 megabytes of RAM with 70 nanoseconds cycle time or less, 256 K bytes ofcac he, two 1 gigabyte (min) SCSI-2 internal hard disk drives with a seek time of 11 milliseconds or less, connected to 16-bit Adaptec 1542 SCSI-2 board (Item 3), and a 17'' Energy-Star compliant color noninterlaced monitor with .28 mm or less dot pitch, and1280 x 1024 line resolution with a 2 megabyte Super VGA interface card, Logitech mouse or equal, pad, WordPerfect for Windows 5.2, MS Windows 3.1, and MS DOS 6.22; (3) Adaptec 1542 SCSI-2 board kit or equal with ASPI DOS driver for interfacing theCalera Engine (Item 1) to the Workstation (Item 2); (4) Installation, Integration, Demonstration, and Warranty including Seller supplied labor, parts, and support for installation and integration of Items 1, 2, and 3 with a one-year onsite warranty commencingafter successful installation and demonstration to Buyer. Buyer shall provide communications linkage to existing systems. Firms interested in receiving a copy of the solicitation must indicate their interest within 15 days of this advertisement.(0019)

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