| Level | Item |
| Ref No | GUA/6/1/4/1/5/4 |
| Title | Electronic Text Newspaper Associates Limited |
| Date | November 1991 - October 1993 |
| Extent | 5 files |
| Creator Name | Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Ian Wright |
| Description | 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. |
| Admin 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. |
| System Of Arrangement | Arranged by the type of record and the activities to which the records relate. |
| Access Status | Open(part) |
| Access Conditions | Subject to access restrictions in line with the Data Protection Act and business confidentiality. |
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