Might aswell throw this out there since we're talking about general vintage a t. I'm searching for a speaqualizer and am willing to pay if someone can sell me one that works. Fyi, it was a synth that plugged into a isa slot that was able to read the bios.
On 09/06/2009, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: > > Oh yes. We had several screen readers developed here in Sweden and > Denmark that we used along with the Swedish Infovox synths. Yes, > Infovox was Swedish in the beginning. We didn't use Asap or Jaws for > dos or any of the other screen readers. The only non-scandinavian > screen reader in use was Hal from Dolphin in England. > /Krister > > > 9 jun 2009 kl. 02.07 skrev Tiffany D: > >> >> Definitely not boring. I didn't know that there were separate >> screenreaders for multiple languages back then. The only synth I'd >> ever heard that could handle those was the Apollo. Sothis is >> interesting to me at least. >> >> On 07/06/2009, Ignasi Cambra <ignasicam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> All this stories are so fascinating...! Many of these computers you >>> guys are talking about are way older than me anyway... I started >>> using >>> DOS with a spanish screen reader called Habla. Well I think it was >>> developed in Spain, but I don't know if anyone else ever tried it. It >>> was kind of similar to JAWS for Dos. I used that thing with an >>> external synth connected through the serial port. The synth was made >>> in Spain too, and it was pretty fancy for the time. Well, actually it >>> might not be a spanish synth, I don't know. It had some very very >>> sharp braille dots on it that said "Ciberveu". No seriously, they >>> were >>> sharp enough that if you tried to read them with too much energy I >>> guess they could hurt you and everything! I was 7 or 8 years old by >>> then, so I only used Word Perfect and a dictionary that came in >>> some 6 >>> or 7 disketes. I even had a really, really loud embosser that I still >>> use these days. After that I started using a PC with Windows 98 >>> when I >>> was 10 or 11. It had a 1gb HD and 64mb ram. After going through all >>> those Windows PC's I finally got a Macbook aluminum and I can't be >>> any >>> happier with it... >>> Oh well, my story is obviously boring and uninteresting, but >>> somehow I >>> wrote it anyway... >>> >>> Ignasi >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: bmustillr...@gmail.com msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
