[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
- From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:46:30 -0500
Saeed, try:
Contact information for:
> Richard Oehm
> Oehm Electronics
> 2194C Galveston Avenue
> San Jose, California 95122-3617
> telephone: (408) 971-6250
> fax: (408) 271-9188
E-mail: oehmelec@xxxxxxx>
> I hope you can get an Optacon. I would be very handicapped without mine. >
In God We Trust,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saeed Mirzazadeh" <saeedm19@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
> dear friends,
> I'm Saeed Mirzazadeh from iran. I know Optacon for around 2 weeks and
> i'm so eager to have one.
> I'm a musician and i suppose it will be very useful for reading the
> notes that there's not the braille versions.
> can you help me for finding a way to buy one?
> also, I've understood that there are diferent type of the Optacon. how
> may i know about these diference?
> kind regards,
> Saeed
>
> On 12/19/09, don bishop <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yes,
>>
>> I've been reading fortune cookies for years. It's also interesting to
>> turn them over and read what's on the back.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/19/2009 9:46 AM, Dan and Bonnie Tonge wrote:
>>> That is a neat story, and I have also had times when I didn't think
>>> there
>>> was anything I could read on a box or something and then picked it up
>>> again later and found that there was, even on just an electrical
>>> adaptor.
>>> Has anyone ever read their fortune from a fortune cookie with the
>>> Optacon?
>>> I didn't think it would work, but hey, it did. I thought that was
>>> pretty
>>> neat reading my fortune with the Optacon. I thought the writing would
>>> be
>>> too small, but there it was.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Linda Gehres"<ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "Optacon List"<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:31 AM
>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>>
>>>
>>> Yesterday I received a package which didn't contain any labels that
>>> could
>>> be felt. I scanned the
>>> package on both sides perhaps too quickly with my Optacon, finding
>>> primarily information about sending
>>> packages via priority mail for a flat shipping rate but nothing as to
>>> the
>>> package's sender or
>>> recipient. Too curious to leave it at that, I opened the box, thinking
>>> that if there were a note inside,
>>> it would be typed if the package was for me. Alas, the note appeared
>>> handwritten, but I was too tired
>>> and frustrated to try to discern whether the note was printed or in
>>> cursive writing. A friend happened
>>> to call last night, and I was filling him in on this whole story,
>>> griping
>>> that the post office had
>>> probably, as usual, misdelivered a Christmas package to my address.
>>> I decided this morning when I got up to re-examine the box, and finally,
>>> I
>>> found a zip code which I
>>> recognized as being that of my brother and his family near Washington,
>>> D.C. And the note turned out
>>> to be in print and in all caps! So, the wonderful and beloved Optacon
>>> does
>>> it again! All it takes
>>> is a lot of patience sometimes!
>>>
>>> Linda Gehres
>>>
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