Survey Update May 23 2006
- From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 21:26:29 -0400 (EDT)
RESPONSE FROM ANOTHER REPAIRER
We heard from Australia. The repairer is Nigel Herring and the company
name is Pentronics. I've forwarded his information to Richard Oehm because
there were some questions about available parts. I'm sure they will get
back to us very soon with details once they are worked out.
Thank you to those users who wrote to Mr. Herring asking him to write and
become a part of the Optacon project.
WHERE OPTACONS AREN'T
We now know that there aren't any Optacons at the Hadley School in
Illinois or the Sight Center in Cleveland Ohio. Please write to me or to
the list and let us know where else Optacons aren't. Even a negative
answer alerts somebody to the fact that we are looking for Optacons.
OPTACON INFORMATION ON OTHER LISTS
One of the respondents not on our list, let me know that the vicug list
has some messages in its archives concerning the Optacon date forward from
1991. I bet other list have such messages also. We might find more Optacon
users.
POSTING TO OTHER LISTS
Don't be afraid of incurring the temporary wrath of list mederators etc.
if you post messages about the Optacon project to unrelated lists. In
fairness though, don't forget to include the words "Off-Tipic" in the
subject line especially if the general topic of the list is totally
unrelated.
SURVEY RE-POST
Tomorrow I'm going to re-post the two surveys to the list. If any listers
has not completed the survey appropriate to themselves I encourage them to
do so. I also encourage borrowing the text of the early paragraphs of the
Potential User survey to use in posting to other sources. Speaking of
sources, don't forget to look through your e-address book for contacts to
make.
A SURVEYLESS DAY
This is the first day in five weeks that no new surveys have been added to
the count. I have no reason to think that we have tapped out our sources
for users. I hope that the re-posting of the surveys will encourage
listers to try again to reach more users, potential users, and those all
important Optacon corpses.
Excuse me while I post an off-topic message to an unrelated list.
Catherine
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