[gui-talk] K1000 and the convention?

[Evelyn Weckerly]

Hi, Les,

I still use mine. I get some print magazines and will not willingly give it up.

Evelyn

At 03:50 AM 5/25/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Evelyn,
>
>I do wonder what significance would come out of an upgrade now.  With the
>explosion of daisy and corresponding players, I would think the direction of
>K1000 would at least change.  I wonder how many people scan books any more?
>AT the very least, I would think scanning of books is significantly reduced.
>
>Les
>
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>Albert,
>
>Last year at the users' meeting, Stephen Baum said that they had to work on
>K3000, and that after that was done, they would be working on our next
>upgrade. He said that since Cambrian had bought KESI, K1000 had sold very
>well. Still, I resent what I see as our being shoved into a corner--again,
>and I expressed as much, quite mehemently. I think it's been three years
>since we have had an upgrade, and I think my memory is pretty good,
>especially since I'm getting a free one (smile).
>
>Evelyn
>
>At 07:00 PM 5/24/2009, you wrote:
> >I see Steve Ballmer is going to make an appearance at the convention.
> >They haven't updated the K1000 in quite a few years.  I hope there's
> >some progress along those lines.  When I asked a few years ago it
> >seemed Kurzweil couldn't get access to the new OCR packages since the
> >two companies were trying to enter the OCR market in a bigger way.
> >Maybe they're ready to let go of one of their later versions.  Has
> >anyone heard anything?  thanks
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