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From: billbr@xstor.UUCP (Bill Brothers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Will a PC talk with TTYs used by deaf people?
Message-ID: <244@xstor.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 19:02:23 GMT
References: <110023@convex.convex.com>
Organization: Storage Dimensions, Inc.
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In article <110023@convex.convex.com> bstone@convex.com (Barry Stone) writes:
>Will a PC with a modem communicate with the TTYs used by deaf people
>over the phone?  A friend is an interpreter for deaf people and she
>wants to know if she can use her PC to communicate with them over the
>phone.

Well, the real problem is that the ttys that deaf folks use are encoded
using Baudot, not ASCII. What you need to find is a terminal program
that will converse with BAUDOT devices. I haven't ever tried to find
one, so I don't really know of their existence. I have an external device
that talks baudot, but couldn't be applied for this. (its for radio)

Good luck on your search.  If you don't find anything, mail me at
uunet!xstor!billbr and I'll take a look at modifying some terminal
source I have to deal with BAUDOT.

I used to have two deaf folks work for me several years ago. I don't
suppose the tty devices have changed much since then.

Bill Brothers
Engineering Mgr.
Storage Dimensions, Inc.
uunet!xstor!billbr
(408) 879-0300