Re: reading books
- From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:44:18 -0700
Isn't interesting how fanominal we all the speech plus was? A calculator
which talked! And look at what is available now, I'd be willing to bet
partly from those rudamentary beginnings.
Mary Ellen Earls
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kaye Kipp" <kkipp123@xxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: reading books
One day I was in the library at the university I was attending. I was
taking a statistics class. Ugh. Anyway, I was using an Optacon and a
Speech Plus calculator. Some people came over to me and asked me what I was
doing, but they were more curious than anything. For some reason I didn't
have ear plugs for the calculator so they heard the buzzing and the
electronic speech. It was kind of funny.
Kaye
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: reading books
> Well the only person in my family whosaid anything about the sound was my
> oldest Sister who lived out of town and all she wanted to know was what
> the
> buzzing was.
> I was never allowed to bring it to work (quite another story.) Anyway I
> had
> enough harassment without that.
> Mary Ellen Earls
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: reading books
>
>
> Mary Ellen,
>
> Great story; I am glad your family was so receptive to the optacon. Mine
> didn't get too excited. In fact, the sound really annoyed them. One day I
> came home from computer school with a detailed homework assignment written
> on a single page, but closely typed in small print. I was reading it,
> trying
> to absorb every detail, when Mom said she had a head ache and wanted me to
> quit. Well, I quit for about an hour, but then when she was off doing
> something else I finished reading the assignment. I also had problems
> during
> my first few years of work when we had terminal rooms, where everybody
> went
> to use computer terminals instead of having them in our offices; I'd go in
> and read the screen while working, and people would start to leave; one
> guy
> said something about it sounding like a Minnesota lightning bug; when we
> finally got our own terminals, (this was before the PC was available),
> people across the hall and in surrounding offices would shut their doors
> because of the sound. Too bad the machine couldn't have been made more
> quiet; fortunately I'm away from that now, and I can read at 3 in the
> morning if I want to. I guess the neighbors don't think much of it; they
> probably say, "That blind lady is using her equipment again."
>
> Mary
>
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