[optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams
- From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:48:39 -0800
Hi Judy,
I honestly don't remember the names of the other students in my training
class, but we were at a motel on El Camino, and it sounds like the one
you mentioned.
I took time off from work as a computer programmer in Oakland to come
over for the training and was able to stay an extra week as there was
another training class coming in right after ours.
I used the optacon exclusively to access our 3270 terminals until 1985
when the company I then worked for purchased the vert system. I believe
it was called pc vert and consisted of an ibm pc and a large box
containing the vert synthesizer. This was before the days of softvert
or vertplus. (I'm dating myself).
Anyway, I have the typewriter module, the crt lense, the magnifier lense
and the calculator lense.
I also got to look at and use an Optacon II before they were released
and really liked the optacon ii so much I bought one and still have it
to this day. And, I also still use the r1-d virtually daily.
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Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "JBliss Judy" <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams
Dear Don,
Well, my memory isn't what it used to be, but your name is familiar too.
Did you come to training with a dog? Early training was done at a local
hotel on El Camino Real whose name slips my memory (it was a name
familiar to a local restaurant nearer University Avenue in Palo
Alto...The Flamingo??)...it had an all-night restaurant, and and an
outside pool near the restaurant. And there was a small footbridge that
connected the rooms in one area of the hotel (that wrapper around the
restaurant), that you had to cross the parking lot, and then you were at
the restaurant. I remember doing mobility around the footbridge and
pool was a hassle and once one of the guide dogs fell in one evening
after training, slipping under the fabric or soft plastic cover over the
pool one winter, as I recall, but got out OK.
Do you remember the names of the other students when you were training?
What work did you go into after Optacon training? Are you still using
the Optacon to supplement other access tools?
Thanks for your response, and for keeping in touch.
Judy
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:12:05 -0800
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Hi Judy,
>
>Your name is vary familiar and I'm sure we crossed paths at tsi at some
>point as I got my first Optacon in 1972 and received training in Palo
>Alto (or was it Mountainview). Training was at a hotel, the name of
>which escapes me after all these years.
>
>Anyway, welcome to the list.
>
>Don Bishop
>
>
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