AUTOMATIC BRAILLE TRANSLATIO N IN THE NETHERLAND S by Marten Vliegenthard f As I told you yesterday, 1 am a worker in the research-laboratory of Philips Computers Industries, Eindhoven, Holland . Two years ago, the Netherlands library for the Blind asked me to develop a program for Braille and contracted Braille . I worked on it in my own time, but during the time I got more and more facilities of Philips without any commercial aims o f Philips . When I say "we" I do mean the Netherlands library for the Blind and not Philips . A couple of years ago there was developed in the Netherlands, in the Technical High School of Delft, a Braill e embosser driven by paper tape punched on a Flexowriter directly . The Flexowriter punches were slightly rebuilt . I hav e some information about this Braille embosser with me for distribution . In 1969 our library had a gift from a newspaper firm on the occasion of its 125th anniversary, for which we bought a computer PDP 8/I with 8K core memory, disk units, a high speed reader and punch . There still is some money left for which we
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