I got mine in the DOS days, can't remember the number at that time. But the number I got when I got JFW has been a 5-digit one.
Courtney -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Humberto Rodriguez Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:22 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] A look back at history: Two digit serial numbers were for the DOS version, the JFW serial numbers began with 1000, I used to have 1218 until I got my JFW from the VA and the serial number went to six digits. Humberto -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Angel238 Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 3:41 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] A look back at history: Do you have a two digit cereal number? I always wondered whether those cereal numbers were given in numeric order. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <lennymch...@comcast.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] A look back at history: >A little more information. In 1980 Dean Blazy started Maryland Computer >Systems where he first released ITS , information through speech, it >was based on an HP computer. Ted Hinter worked for Dean at that time. >In 1980 I >had the world's first talking computer linked to an IBM main frame >computer >an IBM 370. After the first or 2nd winter in Maryland Ted left for a >warmer >climate and started his own company. There was a dispute over the name >so he changed it to Hinter Joyce. > It was around 1985 when I purchased jaws for dos. In 1995 he released > JFW, I was the 47th individual to purchase that product. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angel238 > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:58 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] A look back at history: > > On this list, there have been references to "Freedom Scientific". The > company which preceded the current company. Which now owns our > adaptive screen reading and magnification products. I think it might > be of interest to the newer users of Jaws to know: "Freedom > Scientific" was not > the first company to own Jaws. The first was "Henter Joyce". Founded > by Ted Henter, and, I believe Dean Blazy. It might also interest you > to know, Ted henter was blind. He sold the company. to illustrate > again how > successful we blind people can be. If we just reach for the stars, > and develop our fullest potential. Which we do all the time. How far > Jaws has come from the time when its initials meant Job Access With Speech. > Young people, now days, are indeed fortunate to be able to accomplish, > with so much more ease, things which much more effort was taken to > achieve > a half century ago. Prior to the use of the internet, and when our > only printing device was the typewriter. Though, then, once a skill > was learned, one could rely on being able to employ that skill for years. > Now, it seems, with such rapid changes, it seems new skills must be > learned constantly. To accomplish the same things? > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
