"ION" information - current status?

[Greg Hermann]

>I've spent a few hours looking through SOME of the archived
>references to the ION project. I could not see any significant
>reference to ION in 1999. In fact most of the interesting
>information came from 1995! So...
>
>  1. I's there still interested in ION?
>
>  2. Did anyone decode and post a schematic
>     of the SAAB ION sensor PCB (with the quad
>     comparator)?
>
>  3. How can I get hold of SAE950003 & 4? Anyone
>     got the essence of these articles in print
>     (or are the original articles available
>     somewhere via FTP)?
>
>I'm really interested in this project but the most I've seen is
>patent 4,648,367, (and I'm trying to look at some of the others
>but does http://www.patents.ibm.com/ ever actually work for more
>than about 10 minutes at a time?).
>
>--
>Peter Gargano     peter at mail.techedge.com.au
>Ph: +61 2 6251 5519     Fax: +61 2 6251 6646

Lots of interest here!!--Just haven't had the time to pursue it!

Greg