[optacon-l] Re: Print Symmetry
- From: Test User <sruconich@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:59:55 -0600
When I was teaching BASIC computer programming, one of the assignments
was to draw a box. The only way my totally blind students could see
what their boxes looked
like--and therefore be able to correct any problems in length or
height--was to use the Optacon. By that time the Optacon had fallen
out of fashion as a print-reading device, but I showed them enough of
how to use the machine that they could evaluate their boxes and see
how each correction changed them. You can certainly use the Optacon to
look at things other than print!
Sandy
On 7/17/12, Mary Emerson <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Karla and list,
>
> I had a private teacher when I learned to use the optacon in 1976 during
> a summer break from computer school, so I only had a week to learn the
> basics. But, as you say, being bold enough to explore the capabilities
> of the device opened a lot of doors. I've always used a somewhat low
> threshold but the highest intensity since it feels very much like
> braille. My teacher always left it to me to decide how the machine
> worked best, since I was the one using it and she just used a visual
> display. When the week of instruction was over, I went back for the last
> sessions of computer school and had to read my homework assignments,
> since my reader had quit, and then had to be sure my typed responses
> were legible. By the time I became employed a few months later, and even
> before then at the interview, I took the optacon to work and started
> using it; during the interview, I read aloud from a computer printout;
> at the office, I used it on an old 3277 CRT.
>
> Mary
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