My first computer was a Keynote, which was all of 40k. Evidently there were some Epson (I think) laptops which never took off, so Humanware acquired them and fitted them with speech and their own software. You could write with it (approximately 14 pages) and there was a little microprinter on top of it which printed on spools of paper. I used it a lot, for writing poems, taking parish council minutes, leaving people messages, etc. I guess that there was online capability, but I didn't know anything about that.
It was a nice little machine, which prepared me for a "real" computer. Peace. Linette On 10/21/2016 8:49 PM, Neville via Talk wrote:
Hi, My first introduction into the World of screen readers and computers was with an Apple 2E and Braille Edit back in 1984. The speech syn was an Echo from Streets Electronics. By today's standards, it was primitive but was a vast improvement on what went before. i.e. Just a typewriter and if you were loaded, a typewriter fitted with speech. Don't know what happened to Dave Holliday, the author of Braille Edit, and Raised Dot Computing. Does anyone know? After that I switched to an IBM type machine in the late '80's and used Artic Vision which eventually went to the wall. Cheers Neville. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/linettesukup%40att.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
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