[Blindtlk] Newsline beginnings

[Kirk Harmon]

Well, Dave, all I can say to you is, Thank You for getting the ball rolling 
on such a wonderful service! It doesn't matter how the beginning started as 
long as we have the service making so many of our blind community keeping 
themselves informed so handily, like never before! My hat is off to you and 
all the other dedicated people that worked so hard to give us the ability to 
read and educate ourselves with the news and community business. Kirk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>; "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" 
<blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Newsline beginnings


> Yes, Gary, I think you are right.  Probably in 1992, I designed, on
> paper, a system that was centrally located, and used 800 numbers to
> provide nationwide service.  This may have been shown to the
> Board  -- I can't remember.  It actually used human readers, to read
> newspapers and the like.  Later work made possible text to speech
> that was server-located and could serve multiple people, eliminating
> the need for human reading.  We then conducted a pilot project that
> resulted in Newsline ultimately as we know it today.
>
> Dave
>
> At 09:38 AM 4/11/2008, you wrote:
>>I think David Andrews put together the original proposal and I bet he 
>>could
>>tell you about when he did that. My guess is that folks who work with
>>Newsline at the Center could help as well.
>>
>>My memory is that we started working on it in 1994 but that's just a vague
>>memory at best.
>>
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
>>To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet Blind-Talk Mailing List"
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>>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:59 AM
>>Subject: [Blindtlk] Newsline beginnings
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>>Can anyone point me to an article on the history of NFB Newsline? Or can
>>anyone tell me the first year it began? I'm trying to find out a little 
>>more
>>about the history of it for a speech. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>Sherri
>>
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