| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Regretably, Nikhil Nair stopped working on the BRLTTY project. Nicolas Pitre |
| assumed the job of maintainer. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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