[optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams
- From: JBliss Judy <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:02:20 -0800
Dear Don,
I started at Telesensory in '76 and worked on the Game Center (remember that?)
and also worked on the PC Vert - what a cumbersome device, but it did the job
at that time. I think that Ron Morford was the Vert guy.
The Optacon II was a beautiful design and we finally got a smaller visual
display for sighted teachers that was truly portable. The reduction in pins,
from 144 to 100 didn't seem to be a major disadvantage and I developed a simple
Japanese character set for the computerized training program for the Optacon
II, which we used on a training visit I made to Japan. I wonder how we could
get some of the Japanese Optacon users on the listserv?
Yes, I'm definitely beginning to remember you from training! Do you know Pete
deVasto, who was also one of our early local CRT users, and fantastic bowler?
A question about responding. I'm cutting off all but the preceding message when
I reply. Is that OK?
Judy Adams
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:48:39 -0800
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>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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>I'll check when I get this message back from the list and if there's a
>problem I'll correct it.
>
>Don
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "JBliss Judy" <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>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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