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