[Blindtlk] Newsline Beginnings

[Sherri]

Thanks David I can definitely use this information.
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From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Newsline Beginnings


David:

You are essentially correct, except for your dates.  It was
definitely not 1990.  I started working for NFB in early 1991, and it
wasn't there yet.  The first dial-up newspaper was in flint Michigan
in 1987 I believe.  The second was in March of 1990 in the Twin
Cities, and the third, which I started was in Albuquerque in June of
1990.  It was called Newsline for the Blind, which is where the
Newsline name came from -- thought of by yours truly.

I believe Mike was right that it was early 1994.  I believe Dr.
Jernigan had first number, Harold Snider 2nd, and me the third.  I
don't know who the actual first caller was.

Hope that helps.

Dave

At 02:31 PM 4/11/2008, you wrote:
>It helps a lot! It adds to what I already found. Thanks much.
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>From: "Hyde, David W. (ESC)" <david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us>
>To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 2:17 PM
>Subject: [Blindtlk] Newsline Beginnings
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>We started out with a pilot project in 1990. The Baltimore Sun was, if I
>remember, our first paper. We quickly added the Wall Street Journal. It
>has gone through several iterations. There was at first only one number
>to call, and get the paper read from Baltimore. During the mid nineties,
>some states had a dedicated computer that handled six, twelve, or
>twenty-four incoming lines for callers. Occasionally, it was necessary
>for someone to go down and reboot the computer. It lived in my office in
>Colorado for a while.
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>I don't know who was the first user, probably Dr. Jernigan or Dr.
>Maurer. Most of the national board, if not all, boot numbers to access
>the system on a pilot basis in 1990. You could contact folks who were on
>the board at that time for personal recollections. I was just pleased to
>be able to read a newspaper once in a while, even if I had to pay long
>distance charges (yes Virginia, the really used to charge a lot for it)
>to do so.
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>Hope this helps.
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