Science for the Blind Products isn't quite gone yet.  They are now called
CapTech.  They have been producing a talking cash register that is often
bought by state rehab agencies for blind vendors.  You can look up
captek.net or scienceproducts.org .  Dr. Benham let his W3DD callsign
expire.  I think that he is still alive, but if he is, he would be 95 years
old now.  
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: D-star?
> 
> Actually, I wasn't even thinking about a computer.  In fact, ten or twenty
> years
> ago there was a move toward one of these systems as a universal access
> tool.  It
> wouldn't be much more than a speech synthesizer.  There used to be an
> outfit
> called Science for the Blind which became Science Products who would add
> speech
> output to any digital device that you had by just adding a port and
> supplying
> you with a voice box.
> 
> Tom
>