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- Date: Friday, 16 August 1985 11:48-MDT
- From: Howard Johnson <ut-sally!cyb-eng!howard at Seismo.ARPA>
- Re: Machine-readable Bible text summary
-
- Well, here's what I have about machine-readable Bible text. There
- is a phone # for a BBS and two addresses for commercially available
- software at the end of this article. Both of the companies listed
- are local phone calls from here, but my friend has already left
- Austin so I haven't bothered to get in touch with them.
-
- >From ..!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccrdave Wed Jul 24 03:48:16 1985
- >
- > 1) We have some optical character reading equipment at Davis. It
- > can't be that unusual.
- > 2) Try bible manufacturers. I would guess bibles are photo type
- > set, like everything else. Probably, they have the bible in some
- > sort of machine readable format. The problem is
- > a) worming a copy out of them. [probably quite expensive]
- > b) converting the format. (Hopefully it's ibm format or
- > something semi-standard.
-
- >From ut-sally!harvard!sesame!slerner Thu Jul 25 06:00:39 1985
- >
- > "The Word" contains full text w/ special wp pgm to access.
- > Look in mags (Byte?) for adv.
-
- >From ut-sally!ihnp4!uiucdcs!osiris!dgerdes Thu Aug 8 08:37:41 1985
- >
- > There are two programs out that use the bible. ... The first is
- > advertised in Byte and ... is called Bible Research and they have
- > the King James in a program which is rather slow. You can use the program
- > (i think a modified version) on a bbs in Texas. It is called
- > J. L. Christian and the number is (713) 721-0888.
- > I was looking for the New King James so I gave up on that one and found
- > Omega Software in Round Rock, Texas. They have your choice of the KJV,
- > NKJV and the Living Bible in a program called The Scripture Scanner.
- > It sells for about $273 and is available for a number of computers.
- > Well that wasn't good enuf for me so I called them and asked if I could
- > get the bible on 1/2 inch tape. They refered me to Thomas Nelson Inc.,
- > who has the copyright for the NKJV and they after many weeks replied
- > and said that they could not sell it in that form and that the cost
- > would be too prohibitive for a individual (we're talking $20,000!).
- > So I went back and bought the Scripture Scanner hoping that I could
- > somehow pull out the text of the Bible. Sure enough they include a little
- > routine that dumps text created from the concordance program to text files.
- > I would not try it on a pc.
- > I am seriously interested in finding the original Greek text
- > and dictionary if you run into anything. I know Bible Research has
- > something like that but it doesn't sound too usable.
-
- Received later from the same person:
-
- > Found the addresses for those two companies:
- >
- > Omega Software Bible Research Systems
- > P.O. Box 355 9415 burnet Rd. #208
- > Round Rock, Texas 78680 Austin, Texas 78758
- > (512) 255-9569 (512) 835-7981
- >
- > I would appreciate any information you could get on the greek
- > transliterator that BRS sells. [On my list of "things to do."] thanx
- > -dave
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