On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 21:07:42 -0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote: >Over the years, IBM's done great work making technology accessible -- >that is, reducing effects and limitations of diminished hearing, sight, >mobility, etc.
When I first started in this business in 1970, there were two blind programmers who worked at Wayne State. They both received their output printed in braille on the (1403?) line printer. The mechanism, as I understood it, involved fitting a piece of elastic to the printer on the hammer side of the paper so that the periods would punch through the paper. There was software to convert each character to the correct array of dots to represent that character. It was my understanding that this had been in place for some years before 1970. Perhaps Shmuel knows more about this. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
