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From: tpennick@axion.bt.co.uk (Tim Pennick)
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Subject: Re: networked braille embosser
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Date: 3 Sep 90 04:52:48 GMT
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In <13578@bunker.UUCP>, SIMMONSFD@VAX1.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK
(Frank Simmons) writes:
> Index Number: 9878
> 
> We have purchased a braille embosser and intend to connect it to our
> campus computer network so that anyone on campus can send output to it.
> What I have not solved so far, is how to identify the banner page that
> includes the UID of the sender. Sighted people will be operating the
> embosser and they have to be able to tell who the sender is. If the
> UID has been embossed and/or encrypted via a braille table, then how
> can we identify the output?
> 
> Frank Simmons

I have already tried making this fairly vague suggestion via
E-mail, but I'm not sure whether Frank received my message, and
anyway perhaps someone can improve on it.

Many of the currently available braille embossers have a graphics
capability allowing the construction of diagrams etc.  Given the
necessary software, it should be possible to get an embosser with
the necessary facilities to draw large banners in raised lines on a
header sheet.

Anybody know of any such software currently available?

Tim Pennick

			
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