[optacon-l] Re: Using the Optacon to look at the PC

  • From: Gordon Kent <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:11:31 -0400

Now if we could only read the system bios, they used to be very easy but then 
they started making them look like windows with all different colors and all.  
FOr gosh sakes, it’s onlhy supposed to be a utility for serious users who need 
to get inside the system to change basic options, not to play a video game.
Gord
On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My PC has been acting up, again.  One of the annoying things it does is take 
> an age to start talking.  I hooked up the monitor and looked at it with the 
> good old Optacon.  At least then I could tell something about what was 
> happening.
> I also tried using it to look at the graphics on a pretty inaccessible 
> anti-malware program.  I saw the graphics, but they still didn't make sense 
> to me.  What's a square with squiggles in the corner supposed to represent!
> But it was good to have a clue about what was going on.
> Tracy
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