[optacon-l] Re: Unmeasurable Value of the Optacon
- From: JBliss Judy <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:43:23 -0800
Dear Gail,
You've accomplished quite a bit, and it's wonderful to hear what people went on
to do because of the Optacon.
Our Telesensory training courses were quite intensive, and I'm glad that you
were able to take a longer training course to get an excellent start. I don't
remember Margaret's name, but then I've forgetton so much.... I did various
training sessions in Detroit, but most of them were on Telesensory's computer
products, like our early LapVert laptop, the Navigator, Vert, etc.
You mentioned reading braille music with the Optacon...was it a dual print
where braille and print symbols were interlinear? When I was in Australia at a
conference, I saw some amazing things being done with the Navigator (and later
the Powerbraille) in braille music notation.
Good to hear from you.
Judy Adams
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Unmeasurable Value of the Optacon
From: Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:28:20 EST
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>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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