Re: A possible repairer in the Pittsburgh, PA area
- From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 20:21:40 -0700
Hello Catherine and list,
A friend of mine in Pittsburgh P A was given an Optacon through a friend of
hers who no longer used it. Eventually, it needed repair, and she was told
of a man named Frank Aldendinger, whose father apparently repaired Optacons
and who trained him to do so. I just have his phone number and plan to make
contact, but I being new to the list need to know specifically what to ask
him. Thank you.
Linda Gehres
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 2:11 AM
Subject: update May 8 2006
> SURVEY REQUESTS COMING IN
> Have sent surveys to about ten people today. How many responses we get?
> Well we will see. We have EIGHTY surveys in the current Optacon Usser file
> and eleven I think in the Potential user file. Today we had some
> interesting experiences. See below.
> OPTACON TRAUMA
> I had one respondent fill out both surveys. This was because of his/her
> sudden loss of the use of the Optacon. We need to learn more about this
> aspect of things if we want to secure funding eventually. How do people
> who have been using Optacons cope without them? I am going to re-contact
> the considerable number of users who have broken Optacons and ask about
> this.
> The respondent sent back the two surveys--also several notes each one in a
> different tone. One note included the decision not to purchase a new
> Optacon. No need. Next came the two survey responses, each one admitting
> more and more uses that were made of the Optacon. I responded by sending a
> note summarizing some of the most common uses of the Optacon as reported
> by our surveys. Among these was our top favorite which is reading and
> sorting mail and also using the Optacon as an orientation and aid to
> scanning documents. Another use I mentioned was signing documents. The
> next thing I know I get another note asking for suggestions how to do this
> using the Optacon. I sent back some suggestions but I plan to re-read the
> recent thread on the list covering this very topic in case I missed
> anything.
> SABOTAGE
> I received one survey request which included the fact that the respondent
> had asked TeleSensory how to get the Optacon rapired. He/she was accused
> of
> being a "die-hard Optacon user and was not given any further information.
> I wonder why TeleSensory chose to actively sabotage their own device.
> Interesting!
> INTEREST SURVEY REQUESTS
> In a while I'm going to posts a message containing excerpts from two
> survey requests. One reason is that they are both very interesting and the
> other reason is that one respondent seems to have had some success with
> reading on-screen displays. Maybe he has tried something others of us have
> not thought of. Also, the two requests are both very well-written, so look
> forward to that message.
> THREE WEEKS AND COUNTING
> As we enter our third week on this unscientific and informal Optacon
> preservation and re-development project, we still have not spent any
> money. In spite of that, we have 91 surveys to use as project data. We are
> daily adding listers to the Optacon user list. We are also reuniting
> people with thwir broken Optacons. This of course will take some time.
> We are still hunting for potential Optacon repairers. The three who are
> working together so far are Dave Godfrey from London, England, Richard
> Oehm from California, U.S.A. and Leo Drell, also based in California.
> TeleSensory used to have authorized repairers. If anybody can think of a
> place that used to repair Optacons, we might be able to add some repairers
> to our approved list. To date, we still have not heard from the gentleman
> in Canada.
> KEEP DIGGING FOR THOSE CORPSES. KEEP POSTING TO THOSE LISTS, AND STAY
> TUNED IN FOR MORE UPDATES.
> Catherine
>
>
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> -Catherine Thomas
> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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