[optacon-l] Re: open source and open design for the optacon

  • From: Jim Bliss <jamescbliss@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:03:45 -0800

Ollie and Mary,
Telesensory sold an attachment that fitted on a normal upright CRT monitor
and held the Optacon CRT lens attachment and allowed the user to move the
Optacon camera over the screen.  I have a very short movie clip that shows a
person using this.  It might be available at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jamescbliss/MovieMaker11?authkey=agENpexX_qw#5295771039529487154

Jim Bliss

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM, <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ollie,
>
> I have read LCD screens with the optacon for years, using the regular
> optacon lens in Windows; perhaps others have, also. I can read a laptop
> screen either straight up or somewhat flattened. When I was at IBM, they
> built me a table so that I could have a CRT screen placed flat on its back,
> and I used it that way for the first 15 years of my career. I don't have
> such a table here at home, so if I use a screen of any type (preferably
> LCD), I make it as flat as possible, although when it's on the laptop or on
> a stand, it's slanted and not entirely flat, but easier to read that way.
> Other people probably have other methods and will probably mention them.
>
> Mary
>
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