Heather, thanks for your post. You might want to check out the modern versions of DOS like Enhanced DR-DOS etc. And also the 36 Fallacies of DOS. I'll gladly send you a file of links with all sorts of information etc. if you're interested. I extend that offer to anyone else as well. The machine certainly sounds interesting. Lenny, wow! I didn't know that main frames could talk? I bet you have all sorts of knowledge that I'd love to learn! Do you remember the synthesizer that it used? I really loving exploring and listening to various speech synthesizers? Kim, I have the entire Vert Plus package, including the floppies, the Tracker program and the synthesizer. I adore the synth, because it has the same voice as the KeyNote Golds but I could never wrap my head around how to use that software. lol It has more commands than DOS itself! Can the Vert synthesizer be used with another screenreader? That would be so cool! But I've never seen a different screen reader that offered that option. Perhaps, I could tell it that it's a generic serial synth? I love my compact flash cards. I just need to find a good reader and/or adapter and software for DOS so that I can use it with that os. But the 4gb ones that I have work fine with Windows XP. David, do you have any other DOS software that might interest me? I'm still looking for stuff. Wayne, good to know we have an Apple user on here. Now I know who to call on when I try to set up my IIGS with Text Talker and Proterm. I bought them and then never used them That last will be as an experiment, not to switch over to like I plan on doing with DOS..
On 9/1/10, Wayne Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I used vert Plus in 1991-92 I remeber the first comptuer I used was an > Apple 2E. I used a dinosaur program called "Word talk." boy, am I glad > things have improved sicne then. I rememver being excited when I used vert > Plus. nI wish I culd have used it for a term paper instead of that apple > 2E. wayne Scott > "A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the > bones." > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kim Kelly" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, > > >>I remember taking a computer class in the mid 80s, and we used a huge >>computer and two floppy disks and we used a speech program called "Vert >>Plus". >> Has anyone heard of that speech synthesizer? I thought that class was so >> fascinating. >> >> Learning Doss and all of those commands. >> What memories. >> >> >> >> Kim Kelly >> >> Clarkston Washington >> >> Email and facebook: >> [email protected] >> >> Alternative E-mail: >> >> [email protected] >> >> skype: >> >> kblinky971 >> >> >> Visit my website >> http://www.samobile.net/users/kimk59/ >> >> Keep on smiling and everyone will wonder what you've been up too. >> author unknown >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lenny McHugh" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, >> >> >>> Well, my first PC type computer was Maryland Computer Systems ITS, >>> information through speech. I then upgraded to total talk PC again by >>> Dean Blazie. >>> Then at home Karen won an 8088 Packard Bell xt computer. With that system >>> >>> I used jaws for dos. I believe that in the mid 1980s is when I purchased >>> jaws for windows 1 for windows 3.0. At that time I hated windows and >>> still am not a fan of PCs. Give me my old big mainframes. B5500, B6700 >>> then into the larger IBM mainframes. The first computer that I worked on >>> was an RCA spectra 70 and the IBM 1401. >>> On these systems I had to write my own read /write macros and multiply >>> and divide routines. That was a lot of fun. >>> For the ITS, it was the world's first talking computer linked to an IBM >>> mainframe. When it was linked a news release was sent out through AP. I >>> started receiving calls from all around the world inquiring about it. >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "heather kd5cbl" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:07 PM >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, >>> >>>> One of my favorite system is weird! It was a 280 or 480 something back >>>> in the 80s. We had to use vex. I remember that we thought it was the >>>> coolest thing. That was when you had two floppy drives and about 2 or >>>> three buttons to turn the computer on. That thing is still probley >>>> working today! I remember we took the computer apart in school to see >>>> how the components worked. Remember that is when it took two folks to >>>> carry it or maybe it is because we were so little. I just remember >>>> playing that typing game where you hit a key before the ghost gets you. >>>> And I remember all the commands just to make the computer function. You >>>> >>>> had to do it in the exact order or you had to do it all over again. I >>>> remember having to type "win" inter to make the windows come up. I >>>> remember that if you wanted to spell check something, you had to put >>>> another flopp disk in that had the dictionary or part of it to get the >>>> correct word. I liked my old dos based commands. I was real >>>> disappointed when you did not have the direct access to windows root >>>> comands. I mean you can still have access but, dos was just so much >>>> more efficient. Heather >>>> >>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
