| The BRLTTY project started in July, 1995. The initial team consisted of Nikhil | |
| Nair and James Bowden. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |