Hi!
Yes, the good old days when you did things from the bare bones.
I had written my screen reader program back in 1990 after taking one
course in MASM Macro Assembly at a local 2 year school.
My father read a little of a book called the "MSDos Bible"
I studied the interrupts for keyboards and screen and went from there,
along with getting the screen memory address...
I learned the DecTalk commands and all was written and then a person
from Ithaca New York heard about what I had done and interviewed me.
There was one link in which a reporter said 1971 which is totally wrong
and way to earlier for me...
Anyway, the days of DOS actually made it easier to write a screen reader
program.
So, fun remembering those times.
Now it is time to upload my Breaking News 3.1 update.
Bruce
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Screen Reader History
And now Doug and Dan are with their third company together. I remember
that I really wanted a Sounding Board from Computer Aids Corporation
which Dan designed. For a short time I was sad when I learned that CA
had closed down. Doug and Dan got GW Micro rolling and the first thing
I did when I got my first IT job was to order that Sounding Board,
Vocal-Eyes 1.0, their Braille Talk braille translation program, and the
Noteworthy and calcworthy programs they had. GW's products really
helped make it possible for me to earn a good living.
On 8/2/2015 7:30 PM, David Goldfield via Talk wrote:
> Jeff,
> Thank you for sharing that amazing piece of history. There are so many
> products which we use on a daily basis and we know little about the
> product's origins and its inventors. I believe that someone started an
> assistive technology history wiki and your story should definitely be
> submitted. Is Malcom still with us?
>
> David Goldfield,
> Assistive Technology Specialist
>
> Feel free to visit my Web site
> www.davidgoldfield.info
>
> On 8/2/2015 8:21 PM, Jeff Samco via Talk wrote:
>> In 1985 I bought a used IBM PC with the same 256 KB of memory and 2
>> double-sided floppy disk drives for only $3,000. I worked for the
>> National Park Service in Yosemite and a coworker of mine, Malcom
>> Holser, wrote a screen reader program for me to use with an Echo PC
>> serial synthesizer. Malcom came up with the name Vocal-Eyes and later
>> sold the program to Computer
>> Aids Corporation. However, they were strict on including the word
>> "talk" in most all their software so it became Screen Talk. Later, I
>> was pleased when GW Micro picked up and used the name Vocal-Eyes.
>> Jeff
>>
>> At 03:51 PM 8/2/2015, you wrote:
>>> I got my first IBM clone (256K of RAM) at this time in 1985, and was
>>> running Screen-Talk before Computer Aids Corporation added the Prokey
>>> macros. A SET file was about 128 bytes long, and I edited some of
>>> them with Edlin for better compatibility with my Votrax Personal
>>> Speech System. Many times I'm amazed that this Windows stuff works at
>>> all.
>>> Windows 3.1 came out in 1990, and the first screen reader for Windows
>>> was OutSpoken, which was first demonstrated in July of 1992.
>>> Window-Eyes for Windows 3.1 came out in 1995, and it could first run
>>> Windows 95 in 1997.
>>>
>>> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
>>> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Butch Bussen via Talk
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 2:49 PM
>>> To: Pamela Dominguez ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
>>> Subject: Re: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>>>
>>> Such memories, got my first Apple 2 e in 1983. Anyone remember file
>>> talk? Got an ibm clone in 85 and ran screen talk with prokey.
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2
>>> Aug 2015, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote:
>>>
>>>> I started out with artic vision, and for a short time, I had a
>>>> computer that I was supposed to get if I got a job that had vocal
>>>> eyes on it. But I was so used to the Artic that I didn't like the
>>>> vocal eyes. Yes, diskettes, the five inch soft ones and the
>>>> 3.5-inch ones. Somewhere, I still have them! Pam.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Thomas N. Chan via Talk
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 4:12 AM
>>>> To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
>>>> Subject: RE: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>>>>
>>>> I also started during the 90s when vocal-eyes was the king of dos,
>>>> wordperfect.... let's see, are we talking about diskettes here? lol....
>>>> This is really back from the past
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------------------
>>>> regards
>>>> Thomas N. Chan
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Talk
>>>> [mailto:talk-bounces+thomas.nchan=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com]
>>>> On Behalf
>>>> Of Tom Kingston via Talk
>>>> Sent: Sunday, 2 August 2015 8:12 AM
>>>> To: gary melconian; Window-Eyes Discussion List
>>>> Subject: Re: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>>>>
>>>> You might want to check your timeline. 25 years ago I was using GW
>>>> Micro's VocalEyes on DOS and there was no such thing as Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Sheesh! Now I suddenly feel old. Thanks a bunch. (grin)
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/1/2015 7:40 PM, gary melconian via Talk wrote:
>>>>> Sure we will. I appreciate the products that I have used from GW
>>>>> over the
>>>>> past 25 years of using windows eyes from 4.0 all the way up to 9.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Talk
>>>>> [mailto:talk-bounces+gmelconian619=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com]
>>>>> On
>>>>>
>>>>> Behalf Of Stephen Clark via Talk
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 12:58 PM
>>>>> To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>
>>>>> Subject: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is a feature that they've added to Internet explorer which is
>>>>> turned
>>>> on
>>>>> by default called "Do not track".
>>>>>
>>>>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie-do-not-track
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not perfect, but they are actually trying to improve the
>>>>> security of
>>>>> Windows not make it worse.
>>>>
>>>>> Now, can we please get back to talking about Window-eyes?
>>>>>
>>>>> ==Steve
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