Hilary Hurwitz wrote: >I know this is a long shot.
No, it is probably not a long shot. >We have a blind programmer in our DBA team who has been working for about 30 >years on a IBM 3278 talking terminal. However it recently went to that big >cyber store in the sky and no one here in Israel can find spare parts so far. Ouch. >Is there anyone in the world who has another - maybe in a storeroom, or museum >:) ? >ALternatively is there any blind person who has succeeded working mainframe >emulation with Cobra on a PC ? >Or what other alternatives are there. >The best we have found is Cobra - in conjunction with Attachmate (PCOM just >would not work) What, if you're using windows 7, you could try 'Narrator'? It depends on what that person requires: does the person needs keys (when pressed) to be echoed? How does the person wants to have the screen read out? Say, each word from left to right, top, to botton, skipping or just noting open fill-it-in fields? Or a type of braille screen where you feel the screen with your fingers? Does the person wants, for example, to be able to use Hebrew on its emulator? Or if I missed something obvious, at least exactly how does that talking terminal works? I'm absolutely curious about that. >Can anyone help please ? What about asking IBM itself? I wish someone here at IBM-MAIN could help you. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht PS: I wish I still have contact with the blind programmer (he got at least two degrees at Univ of Pretoria) who interviewed me (25 years ago) for a job opening... He could identify you with either your footsteps (barefoot, slippers, boots, etc.) or your voice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
