Re: remembering my first experiences with the Optacon
- From: "Mary Emerson" <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:46:57 -0700
Pam and list,
Wow! I missed a lot, since I didn't go to TSI for training; but I remember
the first couple lessons with my instructor; she had to drive all the way to
Fremont from Berkeley, a couple of Saturdays. I was so excited and jazzed,
and every word she said was indelibly ingrained in me. I thought the design
of the machine was brilliant, although the camera holder didn't clip on to
the machine very well since the clip was broken and I had to tape it
together; but aside from that, I just thought those engineers were
brilliant! My excitement was probably so intense I bet I wore out that
teacher! But it was a blast!
Being in the mountains learning during the very rainy week of instruction
was great, except that on the last day it was really gorgeous and we were
outside all day and I came home with one horrible sunburn! It was so bad I
was shivering. I got over it though; when you're young you can get over just
about anything pretty fast.
But I'll never forget that first day; it was like the window to print was
wide open! It was like a million Christmas presents!
When I was interviewed at IBM, they loved watching me read a computer
printout; unfortunately, when I started working and we had big terminal
rooms, before everybody got their own terminals, the buzz drove some people
crazy; one guy muttered about it sounding like a Minnesota lightning bug;
somebody else was trying to figure out if it was sending Morse code since he
was a ham radio enthusiast, and it was driving him nuts.
I've demonstrated the optacon at church gatherings and people have said they
wouldn't mind their tax money being used for something like this. But that's
about as far as it's gone. I still talk about the optacon though, since
people wonder how I live without having people read to me.
Mary Emerson
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