[optacon-l] Re: A Little Early Optacon History Sought
- From: "Peggy Kern" <kernsac@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:09:08 -0800
When I was there, we got to feel the pins that go in the array, and I think
there were a few other things, though I don't remember what they were now.
Peggy
http://kernsac.livejournal.com/
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From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:19 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: A Little Early Optacon History Sought
> Hmm, wish I could have seen how Optacons were built, etc. The only part
> of
> TSI I saw were the classrooms. But, guess lots of tours of blind students
> would have slowed production, lol!
>
> Linda G.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary Emerson" <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:22 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: A Little Early Optacon History Sought
>
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I never went to TSI although somebody came to IBM to bring me a CRT lens
>> in
>> early 1977; at that time I worked on Page Mill Road, near TSI. My
>> instructor
>> and I got together at my family's cabin in the mountains during the
>> summer
>> of 1976 during summer break from computer school, and during that week I
>> learned to read; we also worked on a few Saturday afternoons before and
>> after that week. Now that I think about it, I wish I could have at least
>> had
>> a tour of TSI. Occasionally various people who were my managers who lived
>> near there would pick up my machines afther they were repaired, and bring
>> them to me at work, and they were given tours of TSI and shown the
>> various
>> aspects of manufacture and training.
>>
>> Mary
>>
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