[GreenKeys] Re: Braille Teletype

[Don Robert House]

Thanks Ben,
Don



>I was never near the Braille tape machine, and know little of it. 
>But I do recall an engineering manager named Ralph Halvorsen working 
>on a Braille page printer.  It was nothing like a regular page 
>printer.  Instead, it had sort of a flat bed across which a sheet of 
>stiff card stock was advanced, with the Braille punches coming up 
>from below.  They were working on some sort of a cut sheet feeder to 
>keep the "printer" supplied as each page was finished and ejected. 
>I don't think the project ever advanced to the point where a 
>finished "printer" was released for production.
>
>Yes, Ray Morrison was one of the people on the Braille project.  I 
>do not believe that the Braille project was officially funded by 
>Teletype.  I think that it was a project of the Telephone Pioneers, 
>and Teletype supported the effort as long as most of the work was 
>done on personal time.  The Company's contribution was to let them 
>use the supplies and machine shop services for free.
>
>The other big achievement of the Bell System was the donation of 
>obsolete Model 15 TWX machines to the deaf, which effort is 
>continued on today in the modern TDD electronic machines and relay 
>centers.=
>
>Ben Stephens K9KOM=
>
>


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Don Robert House
North American Data Communications Museum
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Computer Museum of America
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