Hello Krister and all: A slightly bigger, less attractive, and possibly louder braille printer is (was) the Emboss 1. It was a vertical load and print machine. The thing came with a silencer cabinet (smile). Dragging the cabinet back and forth to school was a story in itself. The Apple II E got plenty of use though that printer was scary to use (smile). On Jun 7, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> > Hi folks, > I don't know if i have told you my computer history fully and if i > had, feel free to skip this mail. > I think i am one of the few blind people who actually started my > computer experience in a graphical environment and loved it from the > start. > The very first computer like thing i had was an Eureka A4, ya know > those note takers with thermometer, clock, calendar and many more > things on them. It had its own variation of Cp/m so it was a command > line interface. Then by accident or coinsidence or how one should say > it, i and my work mates stumbled upon Outspoken through an ad in a > paper. We decided to try it out since a work mate on my job back then > had a Mac Se30 with System 7 on it. It so happened that one of > rehabilitation people i knew had a copy of Outspoken in a drawer that > he had discarded as useless some time ago. I asked if i could borrow > it and test it and got reluctant permission. Boy, was i glad when i > discovered that not only could i access the Mac, but i could use it > just as well as my sighted collegues, with the exception of graphics > editing. I got a mac myself, that is first we rented a Mac Classic > with 80 Meg hard drive and i thought that "I'm never gonna fill this > gigantic hard drive". The experimentations went so well that i got my > own Mac a Mac II Vx with 200 meg hard drive. This must have been > around 1993 or something. I also had a Powerbook back then. This setup > went with me until 1996 or thereabouts when i was more or less forced > to switch to PC. Of course i was curious as to what one could do with > a PC and Dos so that was one of the reasons i switched. As i had used > Outspoken and loved it on the Mac, i decided to try Outspoken for > Windows when it came out. It was quite good, but not as good as the > Mac version. > Time went by and i tried various Windows incarnations, 95, 98 and XP, > and now i'm back on the mac again and love it. > One thing that i must mention before i finish this longish mail is > that the only braille embosser compatible with the mac at that time in > Sweden, at least that's what they said, was a big loud thing called > the Versapoint, anione remember that one? I never got that one to > work. > Well thanks for reading this looooongish letter of nostalgia. > /Krister > > > > Take good care and I wish you enough. Love Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
