for Krister. we bought that Versapoint from someone on Ebay and it still doesn't work.
art patrickneazer wrote: > Hello Krister and all: > > A slightly bigger, less attractive, and possibly louder braille > printer is (was) the Emboss 1. It was a vertical load and print > machine. The thing came with a silencer cabinet (smile). Dragging the > cabinet back and forth to school was a story in itself. The Apple II E > got plenty of use though that printer was scary to use (smile). > On Jun 7, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> > > Take good care and I wish you enough. > > Love > > Me > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
