Built by Matthew Weed, a blind political science and history major, and Victor Grigorieff, a computer science and psychology major, the system is based on a Macintosh IIfx, although it can run on earlier models, since each Mac program has a similar interface.

I practice nightly, I try to keep ahead / This art of surfacing is all but dead

You're going to tell her what I said about her? You might as well shoot me!

The soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride, / and flies unconscious o'er each backward year.