[optacon-l] Re: Unmeasurable Value of the Optacon
- From: Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:28:20 EST
I've been an optacon user since 1975. It allowed me to get a job in computer
programming and maintain it in working for several companies. One of those
companies provided support to computer users by installing systems and making
changes when such changes were asked. We also did work for the Pentagon. I
never could have done those things without the Optacon. Without all that, I
wouldn't be the person I am today and most possibly I wouldn't have gotten a
job
at all. I use other options now more than I use my Optacon, but I still use
it for reading daily mail, reading instructions on frozen dinners and canned
goods, and things of that nature. I have also used the Optacon to read braille
music and circuit diagrams,and no scanner can do a very good job of things
like that.
I took my training in Detroit with Margaret Smith. She gave me a very
extensive course of training that lasted 3 weeks and during the second and
third
week I had my own Optacon, so since my first job depended on my reading
hardcopy
computer printouts and manuals and being able to keep up with sighted
programmers, I'd go home from training and read everything I could find. I owe
a
good deal to the Optacon and as long as I can keep my two Optacons going, I
don't intend to give them up.
Gail Selfridge
Dear Steve,
Go "Time Magazine Steve"! By the way, are you the Steve Bauer of the
Braille Institute
in LA, or at SUNY Buffalo (or may have been at SUNY some years ago)?
Judy Adams
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Subject: [optacon-l] Unmeasurable Value of the Optacon
From: "Steve \"The Jazz Man\" Bauer" <_steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:23:02 -0600
To: <_optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
>I've been an Optacon user since 1977 and can not believe how much freedom
>this product has provided me.
>
>I just printed labels for several envelopes and used the Optacon to make
>sure I placed them right side up on the envelopes. Sure, a very simple
>task, but without the Optacon, impossible.
>
>If I were Time Magazine, the Optacon would have to be named the product of
>my life!
>
>Steve
>
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