PG Manney wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever built a Braille writer out of a punched tape machine? It
> seems to me that slight mods (i.e. embossing, not punching) would be needed.
>
> I have a blind (she doesn't like to be called "visually challenged") friend
> who asked me about OCR-to-Braille conversion, and I thought I'd ask you
> all...
>
> ps Speaking of political correctness, how do you take _your_ coffee? I like
> mine Hispanic (rather than Caucasian or African-American) in color, and
> bitterly challenged...
As a friend of mine has said in the past, people who need euphemisms are
"differently brained".
I vaguely recall from many years back some info on converting a dot
matrix printer (probably an MX-80) to Braille output. Unfortunately
my old magazine archive was a casualty several moves ago.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Thu Nov 27 1997 - 07:57:36 GMT