Accession Number: 2004.134.49.208
Description: Color photograph; American Printing House for the Blind employee Ruth Ann Wohner is editing a braille translation with a Triformation Systems, Inc. transcription machine; she has short, grey hair and is wearing a navy blue top; she is sitting at a computer on a wooden-top desk; to her left on the desk is a scanner; a red paper bell hangs from the ceiling in the TL of the photo; there are shelves with papers on them in he background; there is a stairwell in the back center with up and down staircases; the down staircase has an Exit sign over it; she is in the 1923 building.
Medium: Photographic Paper
Print Size: 5" (h) x 3.5" (w)
Date: ca. 1990
Photographer: Unidentified
History/Provenance: Braille Transcription Editors (BTEs) were IBM personal computers that were modified to translate braille. Transcribers used a braille keyboard to key in the braille which the computer then wrote onto floppy disks. The disks would then drive the Plate Embossing Devices (PEDs) and Text Embossing Devices (TEDs), much like tape used to drive stereograph machines.
Credit Line: (see provenance)
Subjects: Braille
