That's the program I first learned on and there is still a vert package laying around here in the other room. David Ferrin ow...@jaws-users.com I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I'll probably screw that one up too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Kelly" <kim...@clearwire.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum,
I remember taking a computer class in the mid 80s, and we used a huge computer and two floppy disks and we used a speech program called "Vert Plus". Has anyone heard of that speech synthesizer? I thought that class was so fascinating. Learning Doss and all of those commands. What memories. Kim Kelly Clarkston Washington Email and facebook: kim...@clearwire.net Alternative E-mail: kim...@samobile.net skype: kblinky971 Visit my website http://www.samobile.net/users/kimk59/ Keep on smiling and everyone will wonder what you've been up too. author unknown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <lmch...@verizon.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, > Well, my first PC type computer was Maryland Computer Systems ITS, > information through speech. I then upgraded to total talk PC again by Dean > Blazie. > Then at home Karen won an 8088 Packard Bell xt computer. With that system > I used jaws for dos. I believe that in the mid 1980s is when I purchased > jaws for windows 1 for windows 3.0. At that time I hated windows and still > am not a fan of PCs. Give me my old big mainframes. B5500, B6700 then into > the larger IBM mainframes. The first computer that I worked on was an RCA > spectra 70 and the IBM 1401. > On these systems I had to write my own read /write macros and multiply and > divide routines. That was a lot of fun. > For the ITS, it was the world's first talking computer linked to an IBM > mainframe. When it was linked a news release was sent out through AP. I > started receiving calls from all around the world inquiring about it. > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "heather kd5cbl" <kd5...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:07 PM > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, > >> One of my favorite system is weird! It was a 280 or 480 something back >> in the 80s. We had to use vex. I remember that we thought it was the >> coolest thing. That was when you had two floppy drives and about 2 or >> three buttons to turn the computer on. That thing is still probley >> working today! I remember we took the computer apart in school to see >> how the components worked. Remember that is when it took two folks to >> carry it or maybe it is because we were so little. I just remember >> playing that typing game where you hit a key before the ghost gets you. >> And I remember all the commands just to make the computer function. You >> had to do it in the exact order or you had to do it all over again. I >> remember having to type "win" inter to make the windows come up. I >> remember that if you wanted to spell check something, you had to put >> another flopp disk in that had the dictionary or part of it to get the >> correct word. I liked my old dos based commands. I was real >> disappointed when you did not have the direct access to windows root >> comands. I mean you can still have access but, dos was just so much more >> efficient. Heather >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
