[Hallicrafters] Sorry, No Tactile TV

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I received several e-mails from those in the medical profession and
rehabilitation about where they could get more information on the tactile TV I
mentioned in the Saturday Net announcement. The can not, because it is not yet
invented! Just a joke among the visually impaired about "Brailling" the TV
screen. All it does is leave annoying fingerprints on the screen sighted viewers
have to clean off!	
	
Now there really was a time when Playboy was produced in Braille, but no raised
line drawings, just text only. Funding was removed by several in Congress, by
the way. It caused such a uproar, that Congress reinstated funding. Somebody
claimed that the blind were the only ones who actually read the articles!
Denying them this right violated the 'freedom of speech' area of the
Constitution. And that is the rest of that story - 
	
	
Duane W8DBF