> Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "'Nother One" on
 > 07-01-05 14:34

 >> Barbara McNay wrote to All, "'Nother One" on 06-29-05
 >> 21:09

 >>  BM> There is a man who participated in ABLED before, who is
 >>  BM> interested in doing so again, if he can figure out how.  He
 >>  BM> is blind, has a screen reader, and infrequent help from a
 >>  BM> knowledgeable sighted person.  I believe he has had to get
 >>  BM> a new computer since ABLED's heyday, so he will likely have
 >>  BM> to set up all over again.  He does have email.  Does
 >>  BM> anybody have any ideas?

 >> Gee... We had a blind diabetic participate locally,
 >> but that too was
 >> in fido's hay-day. If you turn up nothing, I *might*
 >> be able to dig up
 >> his number. (Talked over the phone twice.)

 >  BM> Yes.  I believe we're talking about the same person.  He
 >  BM> has moved to different digs, but his phone number is the
 >  BM> same. May I give him your name and number? Email address?

 > Somehow, I doubt it is the same guy. But stranger
 > things have
 > happened.

 > If you have "NETMAIL", or "MATRIX" access, we can

I have netmail, all right, and I received yours.  However, I can't seem to
route netmail out.

 > start there. I
 > posted your quest on an echo called BLUEWAVE for more
 > heads on the
 > voice synthesizer. My sysop *just* wired up an
 > emailnetmail
 > 'gateway' so I should have e-mail access there. Let me
 > know if you
 > don't get a forward to this, then we can test if we
 > have
 > communications elsewhere.

 >> QUESTIONS:

 >> I-net access or dial-up?

 >> Voice playback, or Braille?


 >> Shoot... That's all I can ask at this time?
 >>  

 >> Mr. Brown, with a script and a modem, would call a
 >> BBS, and used an
 >> OLMR called Blue Wave, which allows any page of text
 >> to be
 >> synthesized into a robotic voice. (Male or Female!) It
 >> was a tack-on
 >> program he used, and I KNOW I have a copy of it on a
 >> hard drive,
 >> unless it went down to a hard drive failure.

 >> He said it worked GREAT, and rarely mispronounced
 >> words. We laughed
 >> about how some of the proper names would come out, but
 >> I suspect that
 >> is still a problem to this day.

 >> If we know what kind of equipment he has, and where
 >> he'd like to
 >> get to, I guess we can start working on the rest.

 >  BM> I've no idea what he has, except he does have I-net access.

 > That will likely be the route to go. I would like to
 > go further
 > outside this echo though. I have never run TELNET
 > other than locally,
 > so unless you have experience there, we should maybe
 > spill over to - I
 > don't know - TECH, or ELECTRONICS?

 >  BM> Let me know, or if you find his number, give him a call
 >  BM> yourself.  I don't want to give out his info here, as I
 >  BM> didn't think to ask him if it was OK.  If you wish, you can
 >  BM> send email to bmcnay{at}bigfoot.com, and I will forward it.


 > LORD no! Why do you think my guy is called Mr. Brown?
 > ("Meet Mr. Pink,
 > Mr. WHite...") I just witnessed a person publish a
 > credit report and
 > Social Security Number on a newsgroup out of spite.
 > VERY ugly!!!

 > OK, we'll hopefully see you on netmail. Let me know if
 > you get my
 > blank forwarded copy of this.

Did, as I said.  I'll do some more looking and experimenting to see why
Irex won't pick it up.

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