Hi folks, I don't know if i have told you my computer history fully and if i had, feel free to skip this mail. I think i am one of the few blind people who actually started my computer experience in a graphical environment and loved it from the start. The very first computer like thing i had was an Eureka A4, ya know those note takers with thermometer, clock, calendar and many more things on them. It had its own variation of Cp/m so it was a command line interface. Then by accident or coinsidence or how one should say it, i and my work mates stumbled upon Outspoken through an ad in a paper. We decided to try it out since a work mate on my job back then had a Mac Se30 with System 7 on it. It so happened that one of rehabilitation people i knew had a copy of Outspoken in a drawer that he had discarded as useless some time ago. I asked if i could borrow it and test it and got reluctant permission. Boy, was i glad when i discovered that not only could i access the Mac, but i could use it just as well as my sighted collegues, with the exception of graphics editing. I got a mac myself, that is first we rented a Mac Classic with 80 Meg hard drive and i thought that "I'm never gonna fill this gigantic hard drive". The experimentations went so well that i got my own Mac a Mac II Vx with 200 meg hard drive. This must have been around 1993 or something. I also had a Powerbook back then. This setup went with me until 1996 or thereabouts when i was more or less forced to switch to PC. Of course i was curious as to what one could do with a PC and Dos so that was one of the reasons i switched. As i had used Outspoken and loved it on the Mac, i decided to try Outspoken for Windows when it came out. It was quite good, but not as good as the Mac version. Time went by and i tried various Windows incarnations, 95, 98 and XP, and now i'm back on the mac again and love it. One thing that i must mention before i finish this longish mail is that the only braille embosser compatible with the mac at that time in Sweden, at least that's what they said, was a big loud thing called the Versapoint, anione remember that one? I never got that one to work. Well thanks for reading this looooongish letter of nostalgia. /Krister
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