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- The BRLTTY project started in July, 1995. The initial team consisted of Nikhil
- Nair and James Bowden.
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- The first version ran with Blazie Engineering's Braille Lite. Since, at that
- time, the Braille Lite wasn't designed to be a dedicated refreshable braille
- display for a computer, its response time was far too slow. This situation has
- now been corrected.
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- The second version, BRLTTY-0.22-BETA, was released in September of 1995. It was
- the first to be released publicly. As well as the Braille Lite, it also
- supported Tieman B.V.'s CombiBraille series.
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- James Bowden stopped being an active developer, although his continued help in
- other areas (including documentation) was much appreciated. Two new members,
- Nicolas Pitre and Stéphane Doyon, joined the team. They added support for Alva
- and Telesensory Systems Inc. displays, as well as many excellent features for
- the system as a whole.
-
- A stable version (1.0) was released sometime around the end of 1996.
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- Support for Papenmeier displays was contributed by a team from The Technical
- High School, Department of Electrical Engineering, Vienna, Austria. Support for
- the TSI displays was completed, and support for the EuroBraille brand was
- added. New features were also continually being added to the system.
-
- Regretably, Nikhil Nair stopped working on the BRLTTY project. Nicolas Pitre
- assumed the job of maintainer.
-
- Version 2.0 was released during the summer of 1998, and version 2.1 was
- released in March of 1999. It added support for EcoBraille (thanks to Oscar
- Fernandez), Alva Delphi (thanks to Terry Barnaby), and Braille Lite 18 (from
- Nikhil Nair), as well as Some small improvements and fixes.
-
- Dave Mielke began to submit fixes and enhancements during 2000,
- and joined the team as the next maintainer in June of 2001.
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