Richard Rubinstein, University of California, Irvine,
California
BRAILLE-8 enables a blind time-sharing user to use a remote
computer interactively with output in Braille. Connection to
the remote machine is via an EIA-compatible line which may
be hardwired or used with an acoustic coupler. BRAILLE-8
translates characters and buffers output to the (easily modified)
console teletype.
A complete one-cell Braille representation of the standard
teletype character set is used, and Braille output codes may
be modified easily by the table changes if the user so desires.
Available switch options: Full/half duplex; Hold output;
Flush buffer.
| Minimum Hardware: | PDP-8/E, 4K, Bootstrap loader,
ASR33 (with Braille modification),
KL8EX EIA interface
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| Restrictions: | Uses core occupied by bootstrap
loader
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| Miscellaneous: | Contact DEC PDP-8 Marketing for
teletype modification information
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| Source Language: | PAL-8
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| Catalog:
| July 1973
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