[gui-talk] $100 computers.

[Kenlawrence124 at aol.com]

Hi list, My first computer was one of the windows 98 machines a friend got  
rid of.  They were only pentium 1 processors and had Window-eyes on the  
machine.  That was six years ago.  It also had Juno installed on  it.  It died 
on me one day before I could really make use of it.   I didn't know how to 
defrag, to use the scan disc utility, or things like that  so I maybe could 
have saved it.  Of course by todays standards it wouldn't  cut it and with 
Juno more or less a has been, and with websites today more then  likely the 
new ones they offer are much later.  If your getting your foot  in the door 
like I was at the time it maybe is a good option.  I can't say  quality 
control is a sure thing though.  Also with NVDA some of you maybe  won't like the 
Espeak voice as a default, and Microsoft Sam is worse.  That  is one of the 
worse voices I ever heard the old Speech plus calculaters sounded  better, 
not to mention the old speak and spell.  If you can get used to the  accent 
of NVDA and if you find a voice that is easier on the ear you can get  used 
to it.  I remember whe the Reading edge came out, David andrews did a  
review in the August 1993 monitor Reading machines compared and one of them had  
an accent like NVDA and he thought it was kind of kooky to give a machine an 
 austrailian accent.  That is Espeak.  You maybe can find out how to  get a 
real speak as a stand alone to work in the SAPI 5 speech choice.