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Juliet Braille Embosser

Enabling Technologies

(a) embosser; SN# J0290; rectangular ivory-enameled steel body with hinged lid; dark gray plastic handles inset in sides; lid opens to reveal embossing head, carriage, tractor feed wheels, and sixteen key keyboard; paper feed slot on front; paper output slot on back, above insets with parallel and serial ports, and power cord jack and onn-off rocker switch; screened in blue on top is the maker's ETC logo, also legend, "Enabling Technologies Company Juliet Brailler"; (b) black plastic three-prong power cord, with pentagonal jack; stamped "AEC 3"; (c) taupe plastic parallel cable; printed on side, "26AWG SPACE SHUTTLE"; (d) print-braille manual; blue faux leather cover reinforced with shipping tape, plastic four-strap binding; yellow 3.5" floppy disk in plastic envelope inside front cover; brailled on fronts of pages and printed on reverse; (e) braille notes; 38 pages of cream brailled notes in a brown "Leatheroid" accordian-fold folder, labeled in ink, "Juliet Printer Misc. Notes"; (f) stack of white fan-fold embossing paper; white tractor-feed holes in perforated margins; second line of rectangular holes punched within the perforated line on one side only .

1992

Enabling Technologies

Stuart, FL

Used by donor in his job as a computer programmer for Miles Laboratories (later the Bayer Corporation) in Elkhart, IN. Purchased in 1992. From donor, "It enabled me to get braille printouts of much higher quality than the LED-120 provided. I used the Juliet on a limited basis for the rest of my years at Bayer, as speech access through the JAWS system became my main access tool." Paul Filpus retired from Bayer in 2003.

Founded as Triformation Systems in the early 1970s, Enabling Technologies introduced a series of successful digital braille embossers for the consumer and commercial market.

Gift of Paul Filpus, 2013.20