Hello Catherine, Here is the message you sent to me from Inteligent Access Services as per your telephone message request. I'll let you post this to the list. After all, you're Optacon Central. I'll wait until I compile all of the information from the repair services providers before I post this or any other repair info to the list. Additionally, When I have a bit of time to spend on it, I intend to contact all of these folks and get a feel for their enthusiasm before I create a definitive posting. Thanks so very much for all of your hard work. There certainly seems to be a great deal of activity on the list today. I look forward to reading it when I have the time. Take care, and Thanks again, for all of your hard work and constant dedication to the Optacon. Richard Oehm The intelligent Access message follows: Hello Catherine I'm glad to see that some effort is being made to coordinate resources for Optacon users. We have been servicing Optacons for well over twenty years now and consider it one if the dying arts like CP/M or Apple DOS. We service equipment from anywhere in the world and continue to assist Optacon users when ever possible. As I have mentioned to others we do not have a reliable or reasonable replacement for the iris cable and this of course has presented some problems with repairs to series one units. We continue to rebuild series 2 and replace series 1 batteries. We also modify some Optacons to battery-less operation with new power supplies since many users no longer use them as portable devices. The only standard charge we have for the Optacon is $85.00 Canadian for estimates which covers our time and return shipping or can be applied to the cost of the repair. Since there is never really a situation where "only the battery" needs to be replaced we have not established set prices as we have done on other product lines. We have had considerable success overhauling braille and Optacon displays and have a good inventory of replacement or modified parts for this equipment. I would suggest that any one interested in our service check our web page at www.inteliigentaccessmicroware.com for more information. If someone has a special request they can contact us at service@xxxxxxxxxx Fred Stam Intelligent Access Microware service@xxxxxxxxx Richard Oehm E-mail: oehmelec@xxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Catherine Thomas braille@xxxxxxxxx / ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.