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From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: ansi.sys and dos v5.x
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:27:58 GMT
Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA

Index Number: 20960

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hiya, David

 >>DOS 5.0 will not allow you to use the old Anssi.sys, which you may have
 >>already found out.  Youcan use Ansi.com instead, TSI says, at least.  I
 >>just ignore the extra letters that are sommehow being generated.
 >>

 DT>         Yet another case of TSI passing out incorrect
 DT>         information.  I have been using ANSI.SYS from DOS 3.3
 DT>  with my MS DOS for at least 7 to 8 months with no problems.
 DT>  Whoever told you from TSI that the DOS 3.3 ANSI.SYS won't work
 DT>  with DOS 5.0 doesn't know what they are talking about.  This
 DT>  ranks right up there with the TSI story that Phoenix Bios is
 DT>  necessary or at least preferable for use with the Calera
 DT>  board.

That's weird-- the going scoop while I was there (which I told people
when they called) was to recommend ANSI.SYS from 3.3 and if that did not
work/was not available to send out a copy of ANSI.COM (since we
couldn't, naturally, distribute the MSDOS ANSI driver.)

As for the BIOS, that, too, is news to me.  I never ran into troubles
with Phoenix and am interested in learning more about them.

I hated recommending *any* BIOS, but would (and did and still would)
recommend a Phoenix if asked for a specific brand name (along with
explaining that I was only recommending it because I had not *heard* of
any problems with it.) .  There *were* problems with AMI BIOSs-- it
varied from version to version of the AMI BIOS as to whether there were
problems or how severe they were. Those are, to my knowledge, unique to
using AMI with TeleSensory products and a few LANs (like some versions
of Ten Net and others.), however and shouldn't cause problems with the
Calera board or any other adaptive hardware that I'm aware of.

DT> Why doesn't that company check
 DT>  things out more carefully before they start passing out
 DT>  incorrect information.

Something to do with not hiring enough people do do anything resembling
thurough testing in order to *get* the information, I believe.  A good
question, however, and one I don't think we'll see addressed anytime in
the forseeable future...

... Read what I mean, not what I write!

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From: Paul.Migliorelli@p1.f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Migliorelli)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Blindness classic
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:40:09 GMT
Reply-To: Paul.Migliorelli@p1.f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/203.1 - The Shop Mail Only, Flushing NY

Index Number: 20952

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

John, number 1 on my list of must reads is Harold Krents'
autobiography, TO RACE THE WIND.

It was recorded both by NLS, (by the late great Leon Janney, a very
old recording and probably hard to find), and also by RFB.  The RFB
edition is also a wonderfully pleaseant read.

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From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: I've moved
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:32:32 GMT
Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA

Index Number: 20880

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

By the way: for any of you with my mailing address or who have been sending
things on to me at TeleSensory, I'm not at either address anymore-- we've
moved on to smaller and better things.

I'll be happy to give the new address to anyone who ASKS.

The first smaller but better "thing" is a house in Menlo Park, CA.  It's a
small two-bedroom (about 300 sq feet smaller than our old apartment-- but
it has a fenced back yard (with a huge pine tree that's about three times
the height of the house and lots of flowering shrubs.)  We're enjoying
having our own laundry room (I never thought I'd see the day when I was
thrilled about having a washer and dryer...), garage, patio, and not having
to share walls with the neighbours. It's a nice enough neighbourhood, too--
quiet and full of trees. There's not much in walking distance, but a pretty
good bus stops right across the street. (around here,  most of the places
within walking distance of stores and stuff to do are either too expensive
or in really nasty neighbourhoods)

I work at home, now, and my little office at the back of the house has
three windows that open onto the back yard, over the wild rose bushes.
It's a sunny, warm room with hardwood floors and old-fashioned wallpaper
and full of all of my computer clutter-- but I love it.  There is the most
wonderful cross-breeze through the windows on warm days (and we're having
some, already) The furry guy seems to like it, too-- there are nice sunny
spots on the floor, where he gets to bask all afternoon until we need to
run out to the store or the mailbox or to catch the bus up to the city. (he
is thrilled when any of these things happen-- poor mutt, he misses the
daily routine of leaving the house at 6:20 and going in to work. I do not
miss it in the slightest.)

So, anyway, that's all just by way of announcing a change of address. Sorry
for the lengthy message.

                                                 --Carla

... Internet Address: campbell@well.sf.ca.us

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From: Carol.Ashland@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Ashland)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Doggie news
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:33:17 GMT
Reply-To: Carol.Ashland@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/56 - The Overworked Drag, Portland OR

Index Number: 20882

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

MR>  CA> large enough for you and the dog to play in a bit.  Couldn't the
MR>  dog be taught where he can and can't go? Then Bill could give the dog
MR>  free run of the house.

I'm not sure this would be possible without an excessive amount of
reprimanding.  I think most of the schools advise keeping the dog on leash
or tie-down for the first few weeks anyway.  Also, free run of the house
could result in the other people in the house feeding the dog, no matter
what Bill's instructions have been.  I've heard of that happening before,
and creating a huge - literally - problem for the owner.  The school nearly
took the dog away from him.

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From: James.Ellis@p0.f645.n105.z1.fidonet.org (James Ellis)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Ramana Ward Syndrome
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:48:05 GMT
Reply-To: James.Ellis@p0.f645.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/645.0 - Rob's Wreck Room, Longview WA

Index Number: 21023

[This is from the Rare Disorders Conference]

Can anyone either give me, or tell me where I could find, information on
Ramana Ward Syndrome (sp?) ?  I would like some rather detailed info, if
possible. Thanks.

... My Kharma ran over my Dogma..

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From: Steve.Matzura@f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Matzura)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Electric cars and the blind
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:14:43 GMT
Reply-To: Steve.Matzura@f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/203 - The Shop Mail Only, Flushing NY

Index Number: 21083

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 > some sort of constant whistle, this would not only be good for the blind,
 > but also for the sighted who happened to not be paying attention, as well as
 > maybe cutting down the number of animals ashed by these machines.

I can tell you, I attended a residential school for the blind, and
it was constantly patrolled by two mobile guards using golf cart
type vehicles, and those suckers didn't make any noise at all!!!
It was lucky for the low-vision people that somebody has the
foresight to equip the carts with a wide-angle lamp that virtually
lit up its path dozens of yards in front of itself, and that kept
the partials out of trouble, but I nearly got nailed a buncha times
when these guys came around corners and I didn't hear them and they
couldn't see me because of building obstructions.  And they weren't
making any speed, either, so even if we did have a collision,
probably I would not have been hurt or even knocked down, but yes,
the whole idea of silently-speeding vehicles under the control of
people who got their drivers' licenses from the back of a
Cornflakes box scares the hell outa me.

Steve Matzura

Via: FrontDoor 2.02

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From: Laurel.Gealt@f201.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Laurel Gealt)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: HELLO
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:01:41 GMT
Reply-To: Laurel.Gealt@f201.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:273/201 - US Telematics, Yardley PA

Index Number: 20863

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

I think I would have thhe implant if I had to decide again.  I
would not say that "I don't like it.

'Excuse  me -- I didn't mean to start a new line.   I would not say
that "I don't like it"  It is not perfect, but it is better than
nothing.  Before I had the implant, I carried a little note pad
around with me, and people wrote messages to me on it.  Lip reading
was not enough for me to understand.  But now, combining lip
reading with theinput from the implant, I can converse fairly
easily with most people.  I have not had to have another operation
to improve the implant.  But about a year ago I received a new
"processor"  -- that is what they call the external part of the
implant. -- It looks like a doctor's beeper.   Thhe new one is
smaller and lighter, and so it is much more convenient.  Also the
quality of the sound is better.

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From: Wayne.Silsbee@p1.f222.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Silsbee)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: DEAF CULTURE
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:00:30 GMT
Reply-To: Wayne.Silsbee@p1.f222.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/222.1 - N.W. Family History, Oregon City OR

Index Number: 20859

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

> I disagree.  Our auditory functions are certainly able of
> discerning many different messages at once.  The same spoken
> sentence can have many different meanings just by putting
> verbal emphasis on one word or another.

Umm, I think I'll stick with the idea of spoken language being
linear. Because although there is some variations in intonation
that can add to the listener's understanding, I don't think there
is a way to show two parallel lines of thought in speech without
changing from one track to the other and back again.

TTYL

Wayne

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From: VLINDERS@rcl.wau.nl (Meindert de Jong)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Besides Ill Also Healthy
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:10:47 GMT
Reply-To: VLINDERS@rcl.wau.nl (Meindert de Jong)

Index Number: 20932

Dear Members of this List,

Herewith my story so that you may have something to read.
I am suffering from the disabling disease ms.  Sorry but I
cannot spell it since I forgot the full name of this disease.
And it is not necessary to write it in capital letters and
give it dots. I got it too long and too serious for being it a
delicate  case.
I have been (functional) blind, paralyzed, unable to talk and
to eat, and almost unconsciously by tiredness. Have done many
cures. "You need chemotherapy to prevent complete blindness"
was what the Professor said. Due to a chemotherapy in 1985 I
losed my hairs. Subsequently I have taken many 'slow' cures
(with cyclophosphamide and prednison).
In 1990 I went (again) to the University Hospital and asked:
"I don't want to drive a wheelchair, do you happen to know
something?" "Yes we do" answered the Professor. "We have a
medicin that especially works in your legs". After my first
cure with methylprednisolon (two weeks 1 g a day) I could even
walk without using a cane after physiotherapy. This medicin
works almost half a year with me.
Currently I am in a good physical condition: I can even walk
without using a cane, I have an impaired sight, no pain, and
no extreme tiredness anymore.
After working was impossible in 1984, I wrote a PhD Thesis,
while I could read only two hours a day. What else should one
do in that few hours? Watching TV? One of my theorems was:
'Progressive ms can as yet be treated by intensive immunosup-
pression'. "You have proved that indeed" according to my
neurologist.
But I am not here to complain. There happened to be an overw-
helming interest from newspapers, magazines, periodicals for
my research. I have written many papers on my 'risk analysis
for biological control of a forest weed by a fungus'. I am
feeling to be a famous scientist, while hardly nobody knows
that I have a chronic illness.
I am playing chess over E-mail. My rating is 2140, that is
more than I ever have had. I talk over the network with scien-
tists from different disciplines. I am trying to be more inde-
pendent with traveling. A Canadian Professor visited me. When
I'm at home everything is going fine. I am desperately seeking
a little job in science. I'm trying to live although being
ill. And it succeeds.
'Besides ill also healthy' is the title of a Dutch book.
Should it be translated? Would it be useful to begin a small
list for ms patients where we can complain ("Today I had such
a pain in my shoulders") and jubilate ("I travelled by train
to a big city")? I often make some advertising for myself as
being a scientist. Will it work sometime? Perhaps....

Best Regards,
Meindert de Jong
Vlinders@rcl.wau.NL
From: dashiell@nadc.navy.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Telecommunications
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:34:53 GMT
Reply-To: dashiell@nadc.navy.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 21210

Anybody who relies solely on the unix man facility will sooner or
later get themselves into trouble.  I know I've done it.  What the
man facility offers are only reference manuals and I'm afraid those
are abridged.

Two things you can do that may help your situation.
(1)  If you can get one get an account on Genie and get the
aladdin package off the bbs and get it working.

For speech synthesizer users that means using the (/v) option on
the command line to start it up.  Once you've read the
documentation and got it going with your account join the unix
roundtable and leave a ge-mail message for an address of unix on
genie and ask to be put on their mailing list for the unix
newsletter.  Next download all back issues of the newsletter and
read them.  This newsletter will be sent to your genie mailbox once
every month and has a lot more than man could ever offer in it.
Aladdin once set up right will go up and download it for you
automatically and if you run aladdin without the (/v) option when
you do this you'll save even more money since screen writes will go
to ram but since it's being saved to disk that doesn't affect you.
You can then read off-line and learn.

(2)  There was a file uploaded on SED which is the unix stream
editor that contained over 100 pages of documentation on SED that
explained with many examples how and what to use SED for.  I lost
the file but you'll know you have it when you read the top of the
documentation and it reads:  you said it about SED.  When I had the
files and started to use them I made an error in 106 dbase programs
which was identical.  I had to remove the code so I figured out
with the help of the documentation how to write a sed script.  The
result was that it took 6 minutes to correct the error in 106 files
under msdos 3.2 with sed.  Try that with your wordperfect!  Just
reading and using man is like agreeing to go into the ring with
Mike Tyson and agreeing to only use one hand; a great way to go
down for the count.

Jude
From: Lisa__Nofzinger@hikssrv.lib.purdue.edu (Lisa Nofzinger)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: New Orioles Park -- accessible?
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:27:39 GMT
Reply-To: Lisa__Nofzinger@hikssrv.lib.purdue.edu (Lisa Nofzinger)

Index Number: 20812

Orioles Park

I was really excited to read in our campus newspaper last week that
the new Orioles Park in Baltimore is supposed to be fully
accessible.  Apparently James Brady is supposed to participate in a
ceremony honoring park officials today (Sunday).  I was wondering:
have any baseball fans with disabilities seen the park?  Do you
think it's accessible?

Play ball!

Lisa Nofzinger
Purdue University

Lisa__Nofzinger@hikssrv.lib.purdue.edu
From: Joel.Lefkowitz@f54.n135.z1.fidonet.org (Joel Lefkowitz)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Depression
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:19:13 GMT
Reply-To: Joel.Lefkowitz@f54.n135.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:135/54 - Ramblin' Roots, Miami FL

Index Number: 21097

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

One of my Doctors told me a few years ago that depression in people
with chronic pain or depression after an operation is called
situational depression. After my last surgery I was given Prozac.
After reading and hearing all the news about it I became worried
and questioned my Dr. He told me that Prozac is the most widely
prescribed anti-depressant on the market and as far as he was
concerned it was one of the best. I took it for about a week and
every day I could feel myself getting better. Not just physically
but mentally as well. After a few weeks he told me that I no longer
needed it. He was right, but I felt so good, I didn't want to quit.
But quit I did. If anyone asks me now if I read any of those horror
stories, I just tell them to do what they think is best.

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From: Jamal.Mazrui@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Jamal Mazrui)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: VIBUG meeting
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:21:04 GMT
Reply-To: Jamal.Mazrui@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:101/460.0 - VI/BUG, Holbrook MA

Index Number: 20923

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

The next meeting of VIBUG (Visually Impaired and Blind User Group)
will be held on Saturday, April 11 from 1 to 4 PM at National
Braille Press--located at 88 St. Stephen Street in Boston (phone
266-6160).

Tyler Carpenter, an engineer at the Institute on Applied Technology
at Children's Hospital, will demonstrate a computer system that may
be operated with voice input and output.  VoiceType is a new IBM
product that enables the user to control a computer through his or
her own verbal commands.  The computer will respond with high
quality synthetic speech, produced by the IBM Screen Reader
software and the MultiVoice speech synthesizer.

Articles are needed for Look and Feel, the newsletter of VIBUG and
the Disabled/Special Needs Group of the Boston Computer Society.
The average piece is about a page in length.  You can write about
experiences, opinions, or tips related to adaptive technology.  It
is a way of sharing information with others and becoming known as
an author or consultant, yourself.  Send submissions to

Charlotte Corbett, Editor Look and Feel Adaptive Computer Lab UMASS
Boston, Harbor Campus 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA  02125 Phone:
(617) 287-5227

	    For more information, contact:

	    Jamal Mazrui
	    VIBUG Director
	    745 Somerville Ave, Apt. 2
	    Somerville, MA  02143
	    Phone: (617) 666-9856

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From: fward@bashful.helios.nd.edu (Frank Ward)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Technical Info on Closed Captioning
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:24:24 GMT
Reply-To: fward@bashful.helios.nd.edu (Frank Ward)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame
X-Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference

Index Number: 20815

Hello,

Can anyone out there point me toward a technical description of the
signals used in television Closed Captioning?  I have an idea which may
make the process more flexible if the signal works the way I think it might.

Thank you.

Frank Ward
Physics Department
University of Notre Dame
fward@happy.helios.nd.edu
From: David.Tanner@f168.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Tanner)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Good news - Bad News
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:33:27 GMT
Reply-To: David.Tanner@f168.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/168 - Braille Bank BBS, Pittsburgh PA

Index Number: 20943

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

You will be pleased to know Novell is releasing a new upgrade to
their Netware manager software in April that makes administration
of the net easier and interfacing to other networks much easier.

The bad news is that it will only run under Windows and OS2 so I
guess if a blind guy was planning on getting a job as a net
administrator using Novell he better scrap his plans or hope the
long talked about OS2 Screen Reader from IBM becomes more than
vaporware real quick and that it will handle the Novell software
when it does come out.

And, when will we see any of the other speech producers come to our
assistance? AFTER HALF THE APPLICATION SOFTWARE HAS GONE TO WINDOWS
AND OS2.

Isn't it a little strange that all these other software producers
can figure out how to hook into windows to do what they want to do,
but access technology producers think they can't?

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From: Robert.Carter@f331.n117.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Carter)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Items for Sale
Date: 11 Apr 92 12:58:36 GMT
Reply-To: Robert.Carter@f331.n117.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:117/331 - Cyberpunk EMS, College Station TX

Index Number: 20992

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

[Note from Bill: This is dated March 28th]

I have both a tape-based VersaBraille and a VersaPoint that I want to sell.
They are both in good working order, but the VersaBraille needs a new battery.

I would like to get these items into the hands of someone who could use
them and am not wishing to overcharge for these items.

I will take best offer. If you are interested, please leave me a message
on this echo.

Sincerely,
Robert Carter, Ph.D. * JABBER v1.1 * Jabber... The Lean, Mean, Reading Machine...

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