I used to be able to read punch cards with
my fingers when I learned what hole combinations corresponded
to what characters. When we first did punch cards, we had
these card punchers that sounded like an old braille writer,
and you had to press the combinations that corresponded to the
characters you wanted to create. I saw the ones that looked
like electric typewriters, but when we had to punch our own
cards most of the time, we used the manual key punchers. Pam.
Sent from Mail for Windows
In approximately 1974 there was a fellow in
Denver that produced a
machine that you used a stylus to read the
punches of each hole in order
to read the characters on a punched card.
Dave
On 7/15/2022 12:21 PM, Karl Smith wrote:
> You are correct but I think the
article was really aimed at human interest describing Ted and
the NVDA developers. A real history of how blind people have
accessed computers in various ways would take a book. I met a
man when I was in Jr. High who worked at the air force base
near the school. He had a program I think he wrote which used
the period on a line printer to smack the paper hard enough to
emboss useable braille for him to read.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nvda@nvda.groups.io
<nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Howard Traxler
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:07 AM
> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
> Subject: Re: [nvda] Article on Screen
Reader History (including NVDA)
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> Yes, there was:
> TexTalker by Street
> Screen Talk, Vocal-Eyes, and
Window-Eyes by GW Windows Bridge Vert and Vert Pro ProTalk
ISOSS Flipper ASAP ASAW Artic Tiny Talk VOS (Verbal Operating
System)
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> And, probably, many more. And each of
them probably have a background story. To do a proper
history, one could write a book; not just an article.
>
> Howard
> On 7/15/2022 10:02 AM, Chris Smart
wrote:
>> I still miss ASAP and my Accent PC
card. LOL
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nvda@nvda.groups.io
<nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Howard
>> Traxler
>> Sent: July 15, 2022 11:00 AM
>> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
>> Subject: Re: [nvda] Article on
Screen Reader History (including NVDA)
>>
>> Very good as a summary. A
complete history would have covered many more screen readers
and their developers.
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>> Howard
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>> On 7/15/2022 9:40 AM, Aravind R
wrote:
>>> very nice informative article.
>>>
>>> On 15/07/2022, Brian's Mail
list account via groups.io
>>>
<bglists@...> wrote:
>>>> Yes not read it all yet.
I'd no idea it was accessibility week, or
>>>> are we late to the party
due to inaccessibility. grin
>>>> Brian
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>>>> bglists@...
>>>> Sent via
blueyonder.(Virgin media)
>>>> Please address personal
E-mail to:-
>>>> briang1@...,
putting 'Brian Gaff'
>>>> in the display name field.
>>>> ----- Original Message
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>>>> From: "Laurie Mehta via
groups.io" <lauriemehta@...>
>>>> To:
<nvda@nvda.groups.io>
>>>> Sent: Friday, July 15,
2022 4:06 AM
>>>> Subject: [nvda] Article on
Screen Reader History (including NVDA)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I came across this today
and am sharing it here because I think that
>>>> many here will find it
interesting. (Link below my name.)
>>>>
>>>> -Laurie
>>>>
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>>>> The hidden history of
screen readers
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https://www.theverge.com/23203911/screen-readers-history-blind-hente
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>>>> -teh-nvda
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