[gui-talk] $100 computers.

[Gerald Levy]

For anyone who is interested, the following notice appears in this week's 
issue of the Mathilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind:

Computers for the Blind

Here is your chance to have a powerful computer with software
allowing blind and visually challenged persons to be able to join
family and friends, doing what they are doing.

Each computer comes complete with monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers,
and all associated cables. It also comes with preloaded software.
Software includes: Open Office for word processing/book keeping, NVDA
screen reader, demo version of Window-Eyes (will function for 30
minutes before computer restart), and 60 day demo version of ZoomText.
For only a donation of $100, the Texas Center for the Visually
Challenged will send your new computer right to your door. As of this
morning, they have sent over 3,600 computers to visually impaired
individuals. Computers can only be shipped to the United States or
Canada

Subscribe to the internet service of your choice and send a $100 gift
and you are ready to go!

Call Lee Mann at 214 340 6328 for full information. Please pass this
information on to other people who may need an inexpensive, fully
accessible computer.



Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] $100 computers.


> 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.
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