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Early Personal Computing Pioneer
About Morris Levin
In 1977, while others chased raw processing power, I wired a Z80-based terminal into a surplus teletype and added tactile toggle switches labeled 'RUN', 'LOAD', and 'SPEAK', not for function alone, but to let a blind high-schooler in Cleveland boot BASIC without memorizing command syntax. That prototype became the core interface for the Access-80, a machine built with soldered-in audio feedback, large-key overlays, and no reliance on video output, because accessibility wasn’t a retrofit, it was the first design constraint. I spent three years at the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club not just building logic gates, but teaching shop teachers how to modify chassis for wheelchair access and training librarians to maintain floppy drives in rural school districts. My notebooks from ’79, ’83 are filled with hand-drawn schematics annotated with braille test patterns and marginalia about capacitor tolerance versus switch bounce in low-vision interfaces, engineering as embodied empathy, not abstraction.
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