Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

CA>> My fingers work, my eyesight is failing. I can't see well enough 
CA>> to move jumpers or read the codes written on the chips anymore. 

RJT> What really took some getting used to for me (and still _is_) is 
RJT> the fact that I need stronger lighting on stuff than I used to. 
RJT> That, and a good magnifier helps. I even had to go out and buy one 
RJT> of those magnifiers with the flourescent tube in it a few years 
RJT> back. 

CA> I worked in a shop that had windows all around the building.

Funny how much that used to be the norm...

CA> This is now an 'oddity' with most shops being completely shut off 
CA> from the outside world.

One place I worked at did that,  took an old factory building and bricked
up every single window in it.  They had a recording studio in there,  which
makes it somewhat understandable,  and one hell of a lot of very expensive
sound gear,  so I guess I can understand it.

CA> With the sunlight coming in through the windows I could _see_ 
CA> again. It was amazing the difference between real sunlight and 
CA> artificial lighting.

Yeah.  The place I was working at had some pretty poor choices made over
time. The first situation I was in was using indirect lighting,  which
wasn't near enough for some of the paper that was being dealt with at that
time.  They then went to scanning in all the paper and dealing with it on
the computer,  but the resulution was just too poor in too many instances. 
And in the last spot I was seated there,  I got either glare or poor
ergonomics,  and they didn't wanna deal with it.  Oh yeah,  and in that
building they had "shades" on the windows,  a bunch of which got
direct sunlight,  of the type you could see through,  with some
attenuation.  Not near enough attenuation for direct sunlight,  though, 
and people ended up having to compensate with bits of cardboard and similar
stuff.  And they were made aware of the problem and weren't going to change
anything...

RJT> And I believe you've got a few years on me. 

CA> Yes and my 'lead' seems to be increasing with each year
CA> exponentially. :-\ 

You'll pardon me if I don't make any attempt to catch up,  I suspect I'll
get there sooner than I want to in any case.  :-)

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