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In the early days of my work with disabled people we mostly used TRS-80s and Apple II computers. But the Apple was predominant because of the ease of interfacing with it and the floppy disk drives. Until the BBC Micro came along (and even for a while during the BBC Micro's reign), the Apple II was used by many IT departments working with disabled people. One thing we found, though, was that many of our users had poor vision, so I set out to correct that with this example Hangman program, which illustrated how to create large letter characters by drawing them using graphics commands. This article also discusses an almost totally deaf and blind boy who we helped to communicate using an early laptop computer and morse code. |