4 Feb
2014
4 Feb
'14
11:06 p.m.
On 02/04/2014 10:45 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
To bring this slightly back on topic, what kind of
accessibility
accomodations and software was around in classic hardware? Being a DEC
fanboy myself, with some interest in IBM mainframe systems, I'm
wondering specifically about those two "worlds", the System/360 and
System/370 kind of system, and the PDP-11.
Back in the 70s at CDC Sunnyvale, I recall two cases. One was with a
visually impaired worker who was given a sort of camera-with-CRT setup
for reading manuals and such (remember that back then, everything was on
paper and little else). The other was a blind programmer; he read
output punched into cards.
--Chuck