Congratulations to Rob Carter -- freat news!!
Cheers
John Brabyn
On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, T. V. Cranmer wrote:
> Rob Carter called yesterday to announce, with excitement, that their
> project to produce a 4-line/40-cell display has been completed. The last
> unit was plugged in yesterday. Tests have been going on for some time to
> determine reliability. Rob thinks "THEY HAVE IT."
>
> The unit is packaged in a stand-alone case with an a.c. line chord and a
> serial port. The driver software is in the box. Screen reading functions
> are expected to reside in the user's PC.
>
> Piezo Systems apparently plans to market their display themselves, largely
> via the NET. They have a WEB page at braille.com. They also have a
> general information page on their products at piezo.com.
>
> Rob says that the talk at Piezo has now turned to cost-cutting
> manufacturing processes that could lead to an affordable multi-line
> display. You wouldn't want to know how much it cost to produce this first
> prototype.
>
> We will stay in touch with Rob, and James Maxwel. You remember James? He
> came to the R&D Committee meeting in Baltimore about three years ago to
> get our endorsement for this project.
>
> Depending on developments at Piezo, we may have them bring the machine to
> our meeting in Anaheim.
>
>
>
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