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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Use of Kermit by the Blind
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 12:54:45 EDT
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> I've had a call from Kenneth Reed at NASA in Greenbelt, MD (phone 301-344-8414)
> asking how Kermit can be used effectively by blind people.  Back in the days
> when computers had terminals, you could put a device like a Votrax or DECtalk
> or whatever between the terminal and the computer, and it could try to speak
> the letters and numbers, or words, as they went by.  But microcomputers don't
> generally have a place to attach such a device.  Kenneth says his Apple II
> has a special card that somehow gets characters just before they're about to
> be put on the screen and presumably can transmit them to a speaking device,
> but that's just for the Apple.

Attach the votrax to the printer port & turn on echoprint, perhaps? ^PrtSc on
the IBM, ^P on CP/M.