Duxbury Manuals from 1976 and 1978

While sorting through office clutter, we came across a red binder, with the following words on the cover:

DEDIT TRANSL PREPTB
EPROOF
Manuals-JES/Annotated Copies

This binder was scanned into a single pdf. (The Data General document is in a separate file since it was not bound into the binder.)

Red Binder Contents

MITRE Documents that Laid the Foundation of Duxbury Systems

• Choice of COBOL for Braille Translation by Jonathan K. Millen (MITRE MTR-1743), Dec. 1969
• DOTSYS II: User's Guide and transfer and maintenance manual, by J. K. Millen, MTR-1853, MITRE Corporation, 1970.
• Finite State Syntax Directed Braille Translation, Technical Report MTR-1829, MITRE Corp., by Jonathan Millen, July 2, 1970
• Dotsys III, description of COBOL program by W. Reid Gerhart, Dr. Jonathan K. Millen, and Joseph E. Sullivan, Technical Report MTR-2119, MITRE Corp., May 1971
• Braille Translation: the Computer Aids the Blind (MITRE internal publication)
• DOTSYS III: A Portable Braille Translator by Joseph Sullivan, Technical Report MTR-2119 (rev. 1), MITRE Corp., Oct. 1975

Duxbury History

• Robert Mann's History of the development of the Braille Translator during the 1960's and 1970's helps orient the reader to explain how the MIT braille translator ended up at MITRE Corporation.
• Duxbury Systems Inc. Timeline and History
• Another History of DOTSYS, Duxbury (and RNIB's ITS)
• Duxbury DBT Win Complete Release History (1995-present)

Papers Written by Joe Sullivan

• Duxbury Systems description in July 1977 issue of Braille Research Newsletters
• Braille Translation; J.E. Sullivan -- 351 -- Haifa Conference 1981
• DOTSYS III: A Portable Braille Translator, Joseph Sullivan; Pages 14-19 -- First European Conference 1973
• DOTSYS III: A Portable Braille Translator, Sullivan J.E., Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1973 -- Main index
• DOTSYS III: A Portable Braille Translator; Sullivan J. E.; Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1973, -- 1978 Gill 1978 Bibliography
• Remark to the paper of Joseph E. Sullivan, Robert A. J. Gildea; Page 20 -- First European Conference 1973
• SGML, Braille and UBC; Joseph Sullivan, March 1993 -- Main index
• What the Future Holds for Braille; by Joseph Sullivan, paper given at the Asian and Pacific Regional Seminar on Information Technology for Visually Impaired Persons, Hong Kong, China, December 1996.
• Duxbury in the Year 2000 and Beyond
• A Perspective on Braille Unification; by Joseph Sullivan, paper given at the 10th World Conference of the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment, São Paulo, Brazil, August 1997.
• Unifying the Braille Codes, Darken E. Bogart, Tim V Cranmer; and Joseph E. Sullivan -- Braille into the Next Millenium (NFB)
• Braille Becomes Electric: The Trials and Triumphs of Braille Translation Software; by Joseph Sullivan, paper published in the July 2009 issue of the AFB Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
• Unifying Braille: Louis Braille's Vision in Tomorrow's World; by Joseph Sullivan, paper prepared for presentation at the Celebration of the Bicentenary of Louis Braille's birth at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, January 2009.

More About Joe Sullivan

• From the White House Archives
• BANA Honors Joseph Sullivan with Braille Excellence Award
• Joe Sullivan is honored with the 2016 Hands On! Award from National Braille Press.
• A Tribute from Anne Ronco
• Joe Sullivan profile from Duxbury Systems website
• Joe Sullivan on You-Tube
• FSCast 194, podcast with Joe Sullivan (Joe at 27:40)