| Collection |
APH Collection |
| Artist |
American Printing House for the Blind |
| Credit line |
APH Collection, 2009.6. |
| Date |
2000 |
| Description |
(a) white cardboard box, clamshell lid; (b) Roadrunner unit, black plastic rectangle with belt clip on reverse, yellow trimmed keypad on obverse along with APH logo and product name; headphone and link cable jacks on top, battery compartment for (2) two AA batteries on bottom reverse; (c) black plastic collapsible headphones with black foam pads, purple trim on earpieces, black rubber cord with 3.5mm stereo RCA jack; (d) sand colored plastic serial cable with 2.5mm stereo jack on one end and female 9-pin VGA jack on the other, the VGA jack has thumb screws on either side and is marked "0012-1"; (ef) down link compact disk with software and catalog of E-text titles, copyright 1999, 2000. |
| Dimensions |
H-3.375 W-7 D-6.5 inches |
| Dimension notes |
overall in box |
| Year Range from |
2000 |
| Year range to |
2004 |
| Made |
American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, KY; Ostrich Software |
| Material |
Plastic, aluminum, paper, rubber |
| Object ID |
2009.6.24 |
| Object Name |
Reader, Text-to-Speech |
| Place of Origin |
Louisville, KY; China |
| Provenance/History |
Introduced in the Spring 2000 APH catalog. Discontinued in 2004 in the wake of the introduction of the APH Bookport. Roadrunner was a pocket sized portable unit developed by Ostrich Software that allowed the user to download text documents from their PC or the internet. Springer Design, Inc. designed, developed, and supported Road Runner and Road Runner Talking Bible for Ostrich Software. The unit managed the files and read them via computer synthesized speech. 3Mb of memory holding over 1500 print pages. The downlink software disk came preloaded with 1700 classic documents. Sold in APH catalog for $299. |
| Search Terms |
American Printing House for the Blind |
| Subjects |
Blind
Electronic Aids for the Blind and Visually impaired
Reading devices |
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