| Collection |
APH Collection |
| Artist |
American Printing House for the Blind |
| Date |
ca. 1988 |
| Description |
Beige plastic rectangular chassis; seven-key brown plastic braille keyboard; speaker with grill in upper right; volume and rate of speech knobs; 1/8" headphone jack; ports: serial, parallel, and memory module; yellow vinyl carrying case with zipper closure and brown nylon webbing shoulder strap; AC/DC power supply; parallel printer cable. |
| Dimensions |
H-2 W-5.5 D-12 inches |
| Dimension notes |
Overall, with case; pocketbraille unit is 8.5x4.25x2" |
| Made |
American Printing House for the Blind |
| Material |
Plastic, vinyl, electronics |
| Object ID |
1999.4.18 |
| Object Name |
Braille Notetaker, Computerized |
| Place of Origin |
Louisville, KY |
| Provenance/History |
Introduced in 1988 as a portable braille notetaker, powered by rechargeable batteries. The unit accepted input from its built-in keyboard, from cassette tape via an optional interface, or from an optional external memory module. Grade 2 braille could be read back by the unit as normal speech. The unit could also be used as a voice synthesizer for a personal computer. It was discontinued by 1993. |
| Subjects |
Braille
Computers
Synthesized Speech |
| Title |
APH PocketBraille |
