Re: Donated Optacons open up new choices
- From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 04:02:28 -0700
What a great idea! I've been extremely fortunate personally to get a couple
of donated Optacons which could be repaired, but the idea of having some
Optacons donated for parts in exchange for a fully repaired less damaged one
to allow someone to pay a lesser repair bill sounds outstanding. I wish
there were also a way to know if places like school districts and
governmental agencies such as Social Security Administration have Optacons
stockpiled in some storage room somewhere which could be recirculated.
Linda Gehres
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:54 AM
Subject: Donated Optacons open up new choices
> As the Optacon corpses pile up and can be made available to various
> repairers, new choices suddenly exist for Optacon users. These choices
> might result in even more donated Optacons.
> TRADE-INS
> Up to this point, a user's only choice was to have a given broken Optacon
> repaired. As all of us know, certain repairs such as to the tactile array
> could cost quite a bit and sometimes made the repair financially
> impossible. But think of this positive from our two-week project. If
> enough corpses are available you could send in your badly damaged Optacon
> to be used for parts and instead pay the repair bil on a different Optacon
> that is less damaged. This means that all those backup Optacons that only
> half work can in fact be sent in for repairs without forcing a user to go
> bankrupt. I had not thought of it before but it is possible that this is
> one of the most positive of the outcomes of our project so far. Along the
> same line, if a user wants an Optacon repaired that needs an array for
> example, instead of performing the repair which is costly and
> time-consuming, it might be possible to replace the array instead. Les
> cost, less time and labor, everybody wins.
> Special thanks to anyone who in any way arranged for an Optacon to be
> donated.
> Also, now that it is possible to create brand-new retina cables it is
> going to be possible to bring many more Optacons back to full strength
> operation.
> Ao far, of all the positive outcomes of the Optacon preservation project,
> I think this is the best. What do you all think.
> Catherine
>
>
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> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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