Braille terminal

Thanks. I was kind of curious what the output side of the thing looked like. I was expecting something like a fixed part-of-line Braille display, but I guess paper would work better. What's it got, a moving embossing head of some sort?

There were other widgets in the 1980s, I seem to remember a description of a screen-scraper with Braille output that could be fitted to an Apple ][. I guess they are obsolete. Until recently I was working with a blind programmer/manager, and I was somewhere on her call-for-help list when her PC misbehaved. When it wasn't misbehaving, she had screen-reader software (something called JAWS from Henter-Joyce) that let her do what she needed to do reasonably comfortably under WinNT. It worked well enough for her to use Outlook and MS Word; I never saw her trying to use a web browser so I don't know how well it worked with that. I'm trying to synch up with her for dinner, and if you like I'll try to find out what she knows about this sort of thing. Don't know if she's ever used one, though; she has talked about using what I gathered were unmodified Silent 700s and I still haven't figured out how that worked if/when she got unexpected output. -Frank McConnell