Back in the 1980s we had a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 48K memory.  We also got
the voice synthesizer from Radio Shack and a program from the University of
Illinois to read the screen.  I think this is the program that was being
developed by the Navy.  The whole package did a pretty good job,
considering.

My next screen reader was from Micro Talk for DOS with a Synthphonics voice
synthesizer.

At the same time Kurtzweil came out with their first text reader.  It was
the size of a large copier and cost $25,000 each.  New York State bought 25
of them and put them in regional libraries around the state.

Jody


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