[optacon-l] Re: Unmeasurable Value of the Optacon
- From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:08:07 -0600
Gail,
When you mentioned using the optacon to read cans and packages, it
brought back memories from my early years with the optacon. I had never
realized
that food boxes often had additional recipes, until I started using the
optacon to read cooking directions. I'm not much of a cook, but I loved
trying out some of those recipes, even though not everything turned out
well. Smile!
With a sighted husband and kids, I've gotten lazy over the years, but
those were fun days.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: <Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:28 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Unmeasurable Value of the Optacon
> 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
> ----- Original Message ---------------
> 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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