Hello friends, I'm a new entry to the group. I'm Italian; my name is Olga (Ollie is my nick), and I've been using an Optacon now for thirty-four years... How time flies! I do absolutely anything with it, from reading books, to looking up dictionsries, reading maps, looking at drawings... I have studied Russian and Hebrew with my faithful Optacon; I have read bedtime stories to my son when he was little... I read newspapers and magazines... But I don't have to tell you what a lot of great things you can do with an Optacon! My dream was to see the Optacon turned into an input device for computers - instead, just when I was thinking of suggesting that development to Telesensory, I read it had been discontinued... I hope and pray my Optacon doesn't die on me! I only discovered about this list a few days ago, and I subscribed about an hour ago. I'm eager to share experiences and find out new information about the possible developments in Optacon-like devices to come. Please, fogive my English; I'm quite comfortable with it, but it's still a foreign language! Best regards, Olga Baldassi 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.