[bookshare-discuss] Re: about the optacan
- From: Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:00:18 EST
The optacon was worth the money for me because I was a trained computer
programmer and at that time the only way I could read and correct my programs
was
with the optacon. I had a job which involved going from place to place
installing and correcting and modifying programs and this was in the late
1970s. With
the optacon I could read the printed copy of the programs and the computer
screens. Without it, I couldn't have done any of that. There were no scanners
of
any sort and no screen readers. So the optacon allowed me to have some very
good jobs. Today such a device would only be worth the money if you were
working
with graphic diagrams or things for which there is no software to help
interpret them.
Gail
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