Eureka A4
Author: Milan Hudeček, a Brno man who lives in Australia
Producer: Robotron company, Melbourne, Australia
Weight: cca 1,5 kg
Dimensions: 21 x 30 x 3,5 cm
RAM: 64 kB
Donor: Rehabilitation Centre for the Visually Impaired in Levoča
Eureka A4 – special 8-bit personal speaking computer for the blind. A Czech and Slovak versions of Eureka were created in 1991-1992. In 1996 Eureka A4 was replaced by a dimensionally smaller Aria.
A built-in 3,5 floppy disk drive was used for data storage. The information was obtained via synthetic voice to a loudspeaker or to a set of headphones.
Eureka A4 was operated by 20 buttons: 7 buttons of Braille keyboard, 8 functional, 4 cursor keyboard buttons and a Shift keyboard button.
Sources:
http://tmf.blindfriendly.cz/eureka.htm
http://archiv.inet.sk/7559-specialne-pocitace-pre-nevidiacich.html