Re: User-designed Optacon
- From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:07:03 -0800
Kathryn:
It's perfectly obvious what we need to create a modernized Optacon. First we
need money; next we need money; after that, we need money and finally (you
guessed it), we need money. In other words, all the engineering problems and
stuff are child's-play compared to the real problem which is to get money to
develop a new Optacon and at a price anyone with less money than Latreel
Spreewell can afford! Till we have that, this observer opines that our
discussion is akin to calculating how many angels can dance on the head of a
pin!
Mike Freeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: User-designed Optacon
>I hope that the discussion on this list concerning the design and features
> of a modernized optacon is a first step in making it actually happen. On
> this list we appear to have people who are programmers and engineers and
> others who know programmers and engineers. Currently there seem to be a
> few projects using the name of the optacon to create other devices which
> none of the present optacon users seem to want. Does anyone have contact
> with any of these projects? Is there any possibility of redirecting any of
> them to a ore useable device.
> There are people on the list who possess some of the original schematic
> material used for the original machines.There are also people on this list
> who currently design or repair electronics. In the past few months on this
> list there has also been a lot of biographic information concerning how
> the optacon either broadened or created vocational opportunities. There
> have also been several hundred mentions of different uses of the optacon
> which cannot be performed by any other available reading device.
> Is it time to begin to put all this data together to figure out what we
> already have and what we still need to create a modern optacon? Any
> thoughts on how we could begin?
> Catherine
>
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