Raised Dot Computing Apple 2 Software

David Holladay's Speech delivered in March 2007: My Successful, Wrong Way Encounter with History

This speech was read at the awarding of the 2007 M.C. Migel Medal Presented by the AFB

Items on this CD-ROM

Text and Links

• Key Apple 2 Manuals (not accessible to the blind)
• History of the Apple 2 computer, written and copyright (1991-2007)
• A Decade of Sensory Aids Products: A Warped Mirror, The Combined Sensory Overload Catalog 1984-1994
• A Brief History of Raised Dot Computing written in late 1986
• Complete Text of all the Raised Dot Computing Newsletters 1983-1995
• Raised Dot Computing Manuals and Software (includes Easter Eggs and source code)
• Scanned Images of Some of the Sales Literature from Raised Dot Computing
• Interview with Tony Candela of the AFB conducted in June, 2003
• Archived copy of Braille Planet Website from 1999
• Caryn's notes on Braille Mathematics
• Some notes on revisions and accessibility of this CD-ROM
• Link to: The Duxbury Systems website
• Link to: Documents on Automated Braille Production: An Historical Resource
• Link to: History of Braille and the Early Education of the Blind

Software

• Mess-apple BEX Run BEX with Echo voice! (Software Bonus Feature!)
• WinBEX Raised Dot Computing Apple 2 Software that runs in Windows (Software Bonus Feature!)
• WinBEX instructions (with an explanation of how Caryn Navy's PhD dissertation was used as sample files)
• Additional software to manage Apple 2 to PC disk conversions is included in the directory \apple\tools on this CD-ROM