[optacon-l] Re: Optacon R- versus Optacon II
- From: JBliss Judy <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:42:17 -0800
Dear John,
I hear ya! The retina cables always were one of the weak links in the device -
very easy to pull out or fray. My parents were both lefties and my brother and
I right handed - go figure that. So my Mom had left-handed scissors which I
couldn't use, and I learned to set the table with the knife on the left and the
fork on the right, and consequently I'm not the best person to follow driving
directions.
Thanks for the welcome to the list and Happy New year back at you.
Judy Adams
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [optacon-l] Optacon R- versus Optacon II
From: "John Huffman" <j73.huffman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:43:29 -0500
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>I'll weigh in here on the side of those who found the Optacon R-1s to be
>superior machines. I've never been particularly aware of slower
>responsiveness, but I've always been bothered by the mushiness of the
>images, and the shorter top-to-bottom dimension of the array took some
>getting use to.
>
>I, for one, did not find the longer retina cable helpful, snaking around
>from the back of the machine as it did, because I had to keep pushing it out
>of the way with the left hand as I read. And it's most often been a problem
>with the retina connection that caused me to have to send the machine in for
>repairs, most recently to Richard Oehm.
>
>Maybe it just comes down to the fact that as a left-handed braille reader I
>found it quite comfortable to use the left index finger for the R-1 arrays
>and never had any personal use for the option of using the other index
>finger to read.
>
>Judy, welcome to the list.
>
>Happy new year, all. JH
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:11 PM
>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams
>
>
>> Steve,
>>
>> I had a similar experience with my optacon ii, but it turned out to be
>> some sort of adjustment problem which tsi fixed at the factory.
>>
>> For the first few years I had it, this mushiness and sluggishness seemed
>> to happen occasionally, but after a few years of having it readjusted or
>> maybe replacing a part, it seems to have worked fine ever since.
>>
>> I do agree though that the responsiveness is slightly different from the
>> r1-d.
>>
>> Don
>
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