[optacon-l] Re: Questions from a new R1C owner

From: "Carolyn" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:07:45 -0400

As soon as I got back home with my Optacon, my mother kept
me in print novels for good practice.

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[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
Moore
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 10:23 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Questions from a new R1C owner

I recieved 3 weeks of training using the Optacon! I then
practiced for hours a day keeping the camera straight across
a line of print and so on!
However, I had some vision until 15 and learned print
first's! That would make a big difference if you have to
learn print! I wish you a lot of luck, I was so excited when
I could read the news paper!
On Sun, May 31, 2020, 10:32 AM peter wilkins
<peterwilkins35@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello Ben.

Many years ago, it was advised that you should not use an

Optacon

unless you had been trained by an expert. Our public

library in

Manchester didn't realise this and they bought four

Optacons back

in the 1980's for customers to use. I was the only

Optacon user

and when it was suggested that people could teach

themselves it

was frowned upon by the Optacon teachers who I knew.

Apart from

the two instructors who taught me in London, I knew a

local lady

here in Stockport who also trained to be an instructor.

I think

the Optacons at the library were hardly ever used. They

had two

Kurzweil machines at the library, and I also used those

regularly.

Have you previously used an Optacon? If not, it would be
interesting to see how you go on.

I was trained to use an Optacon in 1982, and it is still

something

which I use every day.

Keep well and good luck.

Peter

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