[optacon-l] Re: Total Active Optacons

  • From: "Mark Blier" <mblier@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:15:51 -0700

Hi, All,

I have one Optacon -- that's it -- if it croaks, I'm dead <smile>.

Mark Blier

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From: "Janet Wallans" <janetcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:35 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Total Active Optacons


Hi Nick,

I didn't know about Richard (I think that is the name of the person in =
San
Jose) a few years ago when I needed a new battery for the Optacon.

So, I contacted Freedom Scientific, which I think is in Florida, and =
they
put in a new battery for quite a bit of money. But the point of this is,
that when they sent it back to me, they sent it in a new soft pack. I =
can't
remember if I sent it to them in the soft pack I had. But I do remember =
that
I was surprised to get the new pack. So, they must have them in stock.

By the way, I also transported the Optacon for, I think, about 17 years
without a mishap.

Janet
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From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Total Active Optacons


> I think that is in part, because many of us have one at work, and one =
at
home, and feel they're too valuable to chance transport damage on.  =
However,
I
> transported mine on the road 1978-89, and had no transport related
damage--but I did carry it in it's leather case inside the soft pack.  =
My
soft packs,
> Margie's and Mine are in deplorable shape because of the foam.  I =
surely
wish I had a replacement of proper size and durability!
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:20:04 -0500 (EST), Catherine Thomas wrote:
>
> Without actually meaning to start this thread, the replies it received =
on
> and off-list have accounted so far for forty-five Optacons in the
> possession of 19 people. It doesn't take much math to see that the =
average
> number of Optacons per person is just over two. I'm placing these =
replies
> in a file called howmany. Maybe it is worthwhile from the development =
and
> preservation point of view to find out how many machines are being =
used.
> Amazing!
> Catherine
>
>
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> -Catherine Thomas
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