Re: [orca-list] You know you're old when ... (was Re: Proposal: Remove the emacspeak suppport)

["Andy B" <sonfire11 gmail com>]

The only bad thing about screen readers now-a-days is that you can't get
JAWS or We to sing like tectalk...grin!

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Subject: Re: [orca-list] You know you're old when ... (was Re: Proposal:
Remove the emacspeak suppport)

Lol, good one! I think some old Apples were famous for that too. :)

Thanks,
KJ4UFX
{.i doi .tcikoritys. mi cuxna ba'e do}
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:23:54PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Robert.
>
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:26 -0800, Robert Cole wrote:
> > +1 I have never used a hardware synthesizer in my entire life, that 
> > +I
> > can remember. I didn't even know what one was until just recently. 
> > :)
>
> Ouch! Just for that you must read my silly tale of tech.
>
> About... I dunno 16 or 17 years ago, I did an internship at the 
> Massachusetts Commission for the Blind in the Adaptive Technology 
> Program. Having been trained and all, I began going out in the field.
> One day I was at this consumer's home trying to re-set up an old 
> DECTalk. And by old I mean it was old then. Nothing tiny like a 
> DECTalk Express. Think of two thin portable scanners on top of one
another.
> Seriously. 
>
> BTW, these were in the days when JAWS 2 was current, and one fought 
> with interrupts and other silly crap in Windows 95. I had fought the 
> good fight, but no luck. For the life of me, I just couldn't get it
talking.
> So I called my supervisor and explained the situation. After walking 
> me through some basics:
>
> Joe: Ok, I want you to pick the DECTalk up, lifting only its left side.
> Me: Huh?
> Joe: I want you to pick the DECTalk up, lifting only its left side.
> Me: (uncertainly) Yessir.
> Joe: Good, now drop it.
> Me: Sir?
> Joe: Drop it.
> Me: (uncertainly) Yessir. <pause> Oh my god it's talking!
>
> I kid thee not. Turned out the devices were notorious for some sort of 
> bad connection.
>
> Say what you will about Assistive Technology today, but I have not had 
> to "fix" anything by dropping it in quite some time.
>
> Take care, kiddo. <grins>
> --joanie
>
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