Re: Jaws and Keys
- From: "john r. vaughn" <jrvaughn44@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFWList" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:22:47 -0500
I think we got software synthesizers in the 1996 to 1998 time frame, which
was great because for many of us we could get rid of the head aches of
hiring techs to
speech soundcards taken out of our old computers and put in our new
computers so we could
have speech. it was so neat when you could finally, as today, buy about any
computer and bring it home and have it working within 15 minutes after you
install jaws.
I started with jaws for dos in 1990 and it was on two disks. my first
computer supplied by VR in Indiana was a Toshiba and had a 20 MB hard drive
and it enabled me to keep on with work.
the computer had a floppy, no CD. speach was through an accent external
sound speaker.
Still had an authorization key disk which could be a problem as much as it
worked.
but in 1994, JFW(jaws for windows, the new name for jaws) came out and now
we blind folks could multi task as long as
we could keep jfw stable. but it overall worked pretty good and kept a lot
of us in our jobs and created many new opportunities for unemployed people
who are blind. getting the capability to work in windows finally was the
first big break through for us. the efforts of the blindness organizations
and others kept the pressure on MS and others in computer technology to make
computers, hardware, web sites and software accessable.
John, remembering the past in sunny and warm southwest florida
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: Jaws and Keys
> Jack,
> You know, I can't even remember whaqt version of JAWS I started out
> with. It was in 1994 and required a early version of Windows
> (obviously). It does seem to me that I had something like 90K of RAM.
> (nope folks, not 90 meg, 90K)
> DOS would not address an entire MEG of memory and, as I recall,
> something like 32K was the bare minimum. We used Quarterdeck for memory
> management and if youhad more than a 60 KHZ processor you were flying...
> I believe I had a 500K hard drive and it was more than sufficient. Nope,
> no CD roms, just a floppy.
> Cy, the Ancient Okie...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jack Lowe
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:44 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Jaws and Keys
>
>
> Well, all I have in my computer right now is Jaws 6.0 and I used the ILM
>
> authorization disc that came with it.
> I moved my Jaws key back to the floppy disc, then I uninstalled Jaws
> 5.10.
> I only did it because I see no need for two programs installed when I
> only
> need one.
> But, if I should need it, I still have all my earlier versions of Jaws
> on
> standby.
> By the way, anyone remember the first version of Jaws 10 years ago? It
> was
> on 4 floppy discs. To my understanding, there were no CD rom drives 10
> years ago.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:25 PM
> Subject: RE: Jaws and Keys
>
>
>> Jack,
>> You are correct about one thing, there is an awful lot of confusion
>> surrounding the authorization key. From what I have read the only
>> version of JAWS you need to uninstall before you install the CD
>> version of 6.0 is the downloaded Quella version of 6.0.
>> If it were me I would just remove the blasted key before I uninstalled
>> anything relating to JAWS because it is no big trick to take it off
> and
>> then put it back on.
>> In older versions of JAWS you could uninstall and reinstall without
>> worrying about the key but, nowadays, who knows.
>> Cy, the Ancient Okie...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Jack Lowe
>> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:04 PM
>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Jaws and Keys
>>
>>
>> OK, there seems to be some confusion here... If I uninstall Jaws 5.10,
>
>> or any earlier version and I leave the key in the computer, and there
>> is no
>>
>> jaws program in the computer. That key will stay there?
>> I have always heard that if you uninstall any version of Jaws, for any
>
>> reason, you take out that authorization key first, or the Key will be
>> gone for good once that version of jaws is removed from the hard
>> drive. If I'm
>> mistaken, please feel free to correct me on this one.
>> But my understanding has always been that if you remove Jaws from your
>> computer, and you want to keep your authorization key. You must
>> uninstall
>> the key back to the floppy disc, or that key will be gone for good
> once
>> you
>> uninstall Jaws.
>>
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