Dear Mary, What a great success story, and reason to develop a product like the CRT and Optacon for just such circumstances, since even with a speech access program on a thumbnail drive, you are running without feedback until you can install it. What kind of work are you doing these days? Best regards, Judy Adams ----- Original Message --------------- Subject: [optacon-l] Re: hello from former Optacon teacher Judy Adams From: "Mary Emerson" <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:58:58 -0800 To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Judy and list, > >I am one of those who began using the CRT lens in 1977 when I began working. >To this day, I still use it when Jaws fails and Windows doesn't boot, >although I find that the regular optacon lens will work very well on a >modern LCD screen. As I've described on this list, in December 2007 I >installed Windows from the ground up on a laptop with a new hard drive, and >since it was a non-standard install, had to install the drivers for video, >sound, and other PC components before I could get Windows to work. It took >all my skills as a computer professional and optacon user to get it all to >work, since the screen resolution wasn't too good before the video drivers >kicked in. But the optacon saved me. I've done Windows installs before, but >they were all fairly standard until that last one. > >Mary > >mary > > to view the list archives, go to: www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.