There are none so blind as those who will not see! Who ever said this was talking about us, though they did not know it at the time. Recently, some have heard fit to write me regarding a message I posted. Rather than write back on an individual basis, I am answering all, via the lists. List managers, please allow this to post, though it may be consider to be to long by some. 1974 saw me in a new reality. I was 18, had my first live in girl friend, job and two new technological developments, Touch tone telephones and the Westinghouse liquid level indicator. A remarkable device this and only $595.00. We all know what it does so I need not explain further. Until the rest of the world wants what we have and use in our vertical market every day, only then will we get the very best the world has to offer! While I work with some of us, I will never work for any of us! This is to say that no person who is blind will ever sign my pay check! I became interested in computers in 1979, attending a junior college, obtaining my degree in Electronic Data Processing. As this was before the onset of talking computers I used an Opticon lens to read the CRT. screen. Completing my academic requirements, along with a very bad case of right arm tennis elbow, I took my first job as a Cobol programmer. My training at Maryland Computer Services brought me in touch with one man who is blind, with vision! 1985 found me working for the state of California, again the only blind programmer in the shop. The XT. had made its debut the previous year and I wanted very much to become involved in the efforts to make it talk. Leaving CPM. behind, I took an extension course in MSDOS. and again met the man who is blind, with vision. Purchasing an Arctic's Symphonics board and my first version of Jaws, version 1.0, serial number 27, I got involved! It was quite clear to me and others that the main stream world is where the highest paying, most sought after jobs are to be found. It was toward this goal that I steered my course. Our world was about to be overwhelmed with a glut of technological miracles and thus the war began, it is not over yet. 1994 found me as the president of my own software company, Future Vision Software, INC. I had learned Turbo Pascal by this time and developed five Christian based applications on the open market. Less than 14 months later I found my programs raped by Christian hackers and placed on a BBS. known as the Christian connection. I was using Jaws version 2.3 for DOS. serial number 0039314 at this time and quickly became interested in the push toward JFW. The man who is blind, with vision never stopped working. The JFW. development happened so fast that two years later I was using Windows 98 and JFW. 3.5, serial number JFW-35959. Our talking computer world had turned once again. Recently, I was privileged to browse a store that boasted of having every technological device for the blind. They may well be right in doing so, though I cannot imagine why. I heard everything from bill and color identifiers to 60 series talking cell phones, talking bar code readers, a new device known as a Braille Sense and these are just a few of the high priced highlights. By the end of year 2007, we will all be able to hold in our hand a device not unlike the communicators used by Captain Kirk and his crew in another show with vision. Our device has not yet been named and will contain no moving parts and will work by two way voice communication. Just to sum up, in case you haven't gotten my points. The Shark puts Peepers to sleep In A Box! I have but one disk and can work on any computer system in the world within five minutes of my arrival. Every time I have tried to sit on the cutting edge of technology, it hurt my butt! For those who fear the onset of Vista, soon we will hold the entire wealth of information the world has to offer in our hand! The technology growth curve is imploding in on itself and making faster science fact for all! Explode on this!!! Dana Niswonger _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org
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