[Reader-users] Joined today

[Gary Wunder]

Hi Ken. I remember those days very well - having the Optacon and hoping 
against hope it could really learn to read aloud.


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From: <Kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
To: <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:55 PM
Subject: [Reader-users] Joined today


Hi users of the new Kurzweil NFB reader, Ken Lawrence Central  Chapter. 
Just
joined the list today looking forward to the dialog and the  latest news
concerning the reader.  I'm a bit of an old timer so I go back  to the 
Optacon's
glory days.  just wondering how many users of the new  reader used to use 
the
Optacon?  if you did, hope you saw the item in the  October monitor about 
the
Optacon survey.  they're looking for users, and  people who don't use there
Optacon any more.  they are thinking of putting  nonuse Optacons back in to
circulation.  if they get enough response to it,  they may relaunch the 
Optacon
with updated circuitry to make it possible for it  to read modern print 
formats
and font sizes used today.  forget the email  address off hand, but does 
anyone
on list remember what happened to the voice  output that was developed at
around the same time as the First Kurzweil readers  that was mente for the
Optacon?  also on a related question, oops, 2  questions, will future 
portable
readers have a Braille display incorporated in  to it?  and also if a Car is
developed for the blind, it seems a form of  the Kurzweil reader could be
incorporated in to it so that a Street sign could  be read or even the menu 
at a drive
through.  Yeah, it's a great time to be  blind Huh?  Ken.

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of the blind to  achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind; 
to
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