What do I use for OCR? What model in particular, too, please? I've looked at Macs, but found anything but the Mac Mini's out of my price range. The local store doesn't stock any of these, so I'd be buying without getting a look at what I was getting. Local store is Best Buy. Other options are Sam's Club and Wallmart. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy Rosenthal To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:57 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Computer Hell Might I suggest a Mac? smile Cindy --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I hoped they could fix things several months ago. > This is a pesky network glitch which doesn't seem to > be easily solvable, though I'll bet that once it is > solved we will say how obvious it was. I actually > did start looking for a computer out of desperation > yesterday. Every blasted machine I saw at Best Buy > had Vista 64 on it. They said they would charge me > list for Vista 32 and $139 worth of labor to > install. Called Sam's Club with same results. > Obviously I was just doing this to have something to > do more than anything else. I did find a computer > which appealed to me as a piece of equipment. If it > had had wireless, I'd have bought it just to feel > better; an Asus Essentio CS5111 PC. The 5110 has > wireless, but I can find nobody selling it at all. > We'll see what tomorrow brings by way of a solution. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Monica Willyard > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:15 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Computer Hell > > > Gary, I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with > your computers. For > some people it's an inconvenience. For a blind > person, it's like > losing our eyes for awhile. If I were transported > back in time where > computers with speech didn't exist, I would have a > hard time adjusting > to the lack of independence and inability to read > freely. I hope they > can fix your computer issues with a minimum of > downtime for you. > > -- > Monica Willyard > Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email > to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the > subject line. To get a list of available commands, > put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.