A personal anniversary
- From: Pat Byrne <k9jau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:48:35 -0500
I saw my first Optacon at a "blind convention" in Chicago, probably
in 1972 or '73. I read a few letters and decided I wanted one!!
I got a bank loan and bought it; I talked my boss into paying for the
training at TSI. That was in July the year before Nixon
resigned. It was all over the news and I remember a few politically
WAY incorrect statements about him and the horse he rode in on!! (I
think made by me)!!
That was probably 1974, and I have used my Optacon every day (almost)
ever since. My original Optacon, which I still own, was the first
R1C to come off the production line. Richard Oehm keeps that one and
another I have since acquired going, and going quite well.
I had forgotten about the Optacon and Social Security. Some time
after I was trained, I was talking to someone at TSI, probably Gayle
Brugler. She told me they were talking with Social Security, and it
turns out, one of the people from S S was Jim Linsley, someone I had
shared a locker with all through high school. My name somehow came
up and somehow Jim thought I was competent so an old friendship might
have influenced the Optacon at Social Security. Jim was across the
country from Chicago where we went to high school, and I have never
talked with him about this.
Thanks a lot for the memories.
And as so many of us are saying: "Long live the Optacon."
Pat Byrne
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