Re: Announcing the Historical Access Preservation Project
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:13:58 -0500
I have some old hardware that I haven't used in years, but partly for
nostalgia and partly because I thought it might be of use to someone, I kept
them. The first is VistaVGA from Telesensory, the screen enlarger that was
implemented partly in software and partly in hardware running on the old
Intel 486 boxes.
The other was Vert and VertPlus, which were early screen readers put out by
Telesensory. These also consisted of software and hardware.
I still have the hardware for all 3 -- VistaVGA, Vert and VertPlus, the
latter being a prose card that I dubbed "Swen" as the voice sounded like it
had a Swedish accent.
)The littler synth used by Vert or "Personal Vert" was dubbed generally the
"little pervert" -- sorry, I didn't name that one...:)
I think I still have the software but I'd have to look. You know what
happens to old software -- it is recorded on 5.25 inch floppies and never
used again because there is nothing to read it.
Does anyone out there still want this type of thing? I know that adaptors
to run old devices is expensive -- you wouldn't believe how much a
PCMCIA-to-parallel adaptor costs. (I needed one once.) In other words, if
you know someone interested in making an offer, feel free to call. If there
is a place that needs it and no buyers, perhaps I could be persuaded to part
with it -- but as you see I'm a lousy businesswoman...:)
Good luck.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:58 AM
Subject: RE: Announcing the Historical Access Preservation Project
Jaws for dos is available somewhere on the freedomscientific ftp site as
a free download. Also provox 7 written by Chuck Hallenbech is a free
download for dos. The tinytalk screen reader software with ttblast
packages also runs on dos not free and the ttblast supplementary
packages enable some sound cards to work as speech devices on dos but
not many. For the old apple 2E clones there were a couple packages
needing a card and large speaker I used them on a Franklin Ace 1000
called sam and recite and sam and recite both produce speech competitive
with dectalk in terms of quality. The texas instruments 9900 computer
had a screen reader that could be used with it and speech was
understandable on it too. Don't know details on that one since it was
in an eye doctor's office and I wasn't given technical information.
There was flipper for dos too but can't remember the company that did
that one. Gwmicro also had vocaleyes for dos, and then there was Artic
with symphonix 210 and symphonix 215 and businessvision packages high
dollar there. Provox can be found on the internet and downloaded even
today, the rest of these probably not. For CP/m machines, so long as
you could redirect the console out a serial port those didn't have any
problem with any screen reader you chose to use so long as it could
handle ascii. I used to run a CP/M computer with a versabraille p2c
from Telesensory Systems Incorporated until it got to a point where it
needed repairs I couldn't fund, the CP/M machine I still have around and
can hook that to a dos box and have it talk even now. It took good care
of me in college so I keep it around.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Spivey
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 18:14
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; macvisionaries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
gw-info@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Announcing the Historical Access Preservation Project
Hello,
I have started a new project, the Historical Access Preservation
Project, or HAPP. The website is at:
http://allinaccess.com/happ
The goal of this project is to preserve the software needed to access
older systems that are no longer in wide mainstream use, such as DOS,
Macintosh pre-OSX, and OS/2.
Also included would be hardware devices such as the Braille 'N Speak.
So far, I'm looking for archives and information. Software archives that
I can sort through and put what I can on the sight, and information such
as documentation and current contact addresses of companies that may
still be selling their applications, or may be willing to make them
freeware/open source.
Any help that could be provided for this project would be appreciated.
Please forward this to anyone that might benefit from it
- Tyler
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