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- November 1991 - October 1993 (Creation)
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Files created and maintained by Ian Wright relating to Electronic Text Newspaper Associates Limited, November 1991 - October 1993.
Includes: company agreements, November 1991 - February 1993; minutes of board and management meetings, June 1992 - April 1993 and correspondence between members of ETNA Limited, February 1992 - October 1993.
Administrative/Biographical history: Founded in November 1991, Electronic Text Newspaper Associates Limited was a company which provided specialist equipment for people with visual impairments. It was set up jointly by the RNIB, Guardian Newspapers Limited, Aptech Limited and Intelligent Research Limited.
ETNA offered a subscription service for visually impaired people to a full text version of the Guardian, six days a week. Text from the Guardian was delivered to the subscriber through a computer that was attached to a television aerial and the text was read aloud to users via a voice synthesizer.
Other products produced by ETNA included: speaking teletext and TV sound; document scanners, printers and Braille embossers and voice synthesizers and screen-readers.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Ian Wright
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- Wright; Ian (1934-2016); journalist and managing editor of the Guardian (Subject)
- Electronic Text Newspaper Associates Limited (1991-); creators of specialist equipment for the visually impaired (Subject)
- The Guardian (1821-); newspaper (Subject)
- Royal National Institute for the Blind (1868-); charity (Subject)