He's already gotten Eggleston to agree to upgrade its computer system, to avoid future disasters. King clutches the overnight box and says a silent prayer as he motors through the corridors. A man at the computer company has spent hours on the phone counseling King. They narrowed it down again and again to the router. Nothing else made sense.
King plugs the cable into the wall.
Hooks up the phone lines. Sends out a ping. And . . . the computers in the other building answer. About 19.5 million Americans ages 16 to 67 have conditions that limit the amount or kind of work they can do. Computer use among disabled Thirty percent of people with disabilities owned computers in 1998, up from 20 percent in 1994.