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From: hpubvwa!ssc!Tad.Cook@cs.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: How Does One Access a Hearing Impaired TTY
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In article <15419@accuvax.nwu.edu>, hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net (Toby
Nixon) writes:

> Your friend will need to either buy a TDD (they're not all that
> expensive; $300-$500), or buy her brother a PC and a modem (which
> would be a nice Christmas gift, and open up to him the whole world of
> BBSing).

I have found that several of my hearing impaired friends have TDDs
from Krown and UltraTech which will support 300 bps ASCII.  They tell
me that many of the newer Terminal Devices for the Deaf have an "ASCII
switch."

I helped a hearing impaired friend shop for a computer, and I
installed a 2400 bps modem and terminal software for her.  She found
modem communications in the chat mode quite liberating.

With a TDD, it is really a simplex operation.  At the end of your
thought, you type "GA" (for go ahead), and the other party starts
typing.  Then when they are through, they type GA and you type.

In chat mode with the computer, the screen was divided with the
sending end displayed on the bottom, and the receiving end on the top.
Not only that, but you get a full character set, rather than Baudot
code with caps only.  We could both type at the same time, and we soon
found ourselves having more of a "normal" conversation ... interrupting 
each other and everything.


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