Re: reading books
- From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:39:17 -0700
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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