A terminal for the blind (zaibatsu), 10/25/2019
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I've got parts coming for  a Grant Searle video terminal[1],
which  I've  been  meaning  to  build for  a  long  time.  I
regularly  use a  Briel  PockeTerm[2], with  a  ROM made  by
someone  at  SDF[3],  and customized  further.  I'm  looking
forward to having some options.

As  I  thought about  what  my  next Arduino  project  might
be,  I  wondered  if  the  thing  was  powerful  enough  for
text-to-speech. Sure  enough, it apparently is[4].  I got to
thinking about  a blind  terminal, where I  could type  on a
PS/2  keyboard[5], and  my keystrokes  would get  sent to  a
Serial port, and whatever came back would be spoken.

I'm  going to  make the  thing, once  the PS/2  connectors I
ordered  for Grant's  terminal  arrive (I  already have  the
parts for  the audio amp). It  seems to me that  it would be
quite usable  for line-oriented ROM BASIC  (especially since
you can  page the  LIST output with  the LINES  command, and
have it pause after each line if you want). We'll see how it
turns out.

[1] http://searle.x10host.com/MonitorKeyboard/index.html
[2] http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=25
[3] https://github.com/zaphodbe/ajvTerm
[4] https://github.com/jscrane/TTS
[5] https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/PS2Keyboard/

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