Agreed. If you are going to use the 486 hardware you indicate, it would
probably be better for you to use a DOS screen reader, and stay away from
Windows. That hardware isn't going to correctly run modern applications,
anyhow. Regards.
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, bill cameron wrote:
> my advice is not to spend one penny on it, here is why, first you lack memory.
> joe pointed out 16 meg, really that is essential to jump it to at least 8,
> but 16 is better yet.
> more than likely you will not be able to use the 4 you have, i assume you have
> four 1 meg chips.
> still more importan you will need a c p u upgrade to even tolerate it at all.
> a 486 upgrade chip is 100 dollars to make it a 100 mhz machine.
> do not think this is equal to a 100 pentium,, nor is it even going to be close
> to a 50 pentium.
> bottom line save money for a pentium system.
> they start at 500 dollars in u s today.
> that is a 300 mhz system.
> can you do it, yes, but is it easy, no.
> is it going to be useful, probley not.
> more than likely you will get tired of waiting.
> by the way you will have to use jfw version 2, which is also on the cd rom.
> unfortunately it does not have the super easy installation program with it.
> that only works in 3.
> the cost i gave do not include labor, so by the time you pay labor it could
> cost even more.
>
>
>
> bill cameron
> At 01:07 AM 2/3/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >Hello Joe,
> >I'll be using the external DECTalk Express synthesizer. I use the Cyrix
> >25 MHz processor on this 486 with only 4 MB of RAM. I think I've ver 3.22
> >of JAWS for Win 98/95 on CD-ROM. I'm still using Win 3.1.
> >Will I get trouble installing and running the JAWS version for Windows
> >3.1?
> >
> >Amarjit
> >
> >On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Joseph Dunn wrote:
> >
> >*
> >*Dear Amarjit, the specifications for the computer you mention below will
> >*probably prove to be very slow in response, probably too slow for practical
> >*use. I suggest you at least increase the memory to 16 MB to improve the
> >*performance. Also, which synthesiser are you planning on using in Windows
> >*3.1? Please be aware that JFW 2.00.29 will not work with Eloquence. You
> >*will need to purchase a hardware synthesiser such as a DoubleTalk PC or
> >*Keynote PC or you may consider an external synthesiser.
> >*
> >*Joe.
> >*
> >*At 09:11 2/02/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >*>
> >*>Hello listers:
> >*>
> >*>My name is Amarjit Powar and I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
> >*>
> >*>I'm not a JAWS user as yet as I've some partial vision in both eyes still,
> >*>but I'll be using it shortly when I get another computer system. In the
> >*>meantime, could someone tell me if the version for Windows 3.1 can work on
> >*>486 machine 25MHz with 4 MB of RAM.
> >*>
> >*>Thanks!
> >*>
> >*>Amarjit
> >*>
> >*>-
> >*>Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw
> >*>
> >*
> >*Joseph Dunn
> >*Adaptive Technology Specialist
> >*
> >*Royal Society for the Blind of South Australia Inc.
> >*230 Pirie Street
> >*Adelaide SA 5000
> >*Australia
> >*
> >*Tel: +61 8 82322444
> >*Fax: +61 8 82322111
> >*E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >*WWW: http://www.rsb.org.au
> >*
> >*
> >*-
> >*Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw
> >*
> >
> >-
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