Norsk Data UK has presented the National Westminster Bank with 10 word processors specially designed for the blind and partially sighted: the system is built around a Norsk Data OWS-55 workstation running standard word processing software, and incorporating a Vertplus voice synthesiser linked directly to the keyboard; developed in the UK at Norsk Data’s Newbury plant the system reads words to the operator via a speaker or headset as they are typed, and checks them for spelling mistakes against a database of 100,000 words; the machines were donated by Norsk to mark the sale of its 1,000th Wordplex computer to the bank, and Norsk is planning to market the thing in the UK.