In approximately 1974 there was a fellow in Denver that produced a machine that you used a stylus to read the punches of each hole in order to read the characters on a punched card. Dave

Hi Group, Dave is correct. I would have mentioned this myself but for the life of me i can't think of the name IBM used for this software. I know if I heard it, I would remember.

Carl:  Yes there was a program that used the period command to produce braille.  There was a large punched card deck that made this possible with a large translation table to  produce dots in the

Making a search on startpage.com I found out that IBM had a screen reader for Dos. This was written by a fellow at Harver university by the name of Jim Thatcher as the first Screen

Ken, Yeah! I think your writing a book on the topic is an excellent idea...capture all of the knowledge about the past before it disappears! Gaylen Kapperman

Not so great article. It is a Jaws love piece. They don't even mention things like ASAP which I found was a much more superior product than Jaws and without it I would have never made it through

Hi all, Looks like a fix is being deployed to alpha build users, and if things go well, folks will get it as part of NVDA 2022.3. Cheers, Joseph

I would have killed for any of those back in the late 80s and early 90s. I never (until just now) knew that any of it existed. I loved the C64, and later the C128, when I had enough vision to use them

I had heard of it, though I don't know if I knew its name. It was this mythical amazing thing that could let you do BIOS/CMOS configurations and accessible OS installs. In my circles there were rumors

Yes there were lots of these. What I never understood though was that many home computers like The Spectrum had third party synths at silly cheap prices, under 30 quid, and a rudimentary screenreader

Of course the only people who can tell you that are the vendors. I suspect that depends on exactly where the update goes wrong. I remember back in the days I used Dolphin screenreaders, they were

Well, most software I have licenses for checks at boot time of the software. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail

Oh man. I started with the keynote gold on the toshiba 1850 unit now dead. Forget where it is now but if you can get to the talking dosbox archive thhere is a file called oldgames.7z. This contains

I was using vocal eyes for dos in 1991 on a IBM PS2, and beta testing windows eyes the next year for win 3.11.

There was also a version of VERT on laptops they called personal vert. I was directing a camp for blind teenagers the summer of 1990 and they, naturally, started calling it

I had a Commodore 64 in the early 90s with the BB Talker word processor and Sam Say, some Sam games that also used Software Automatic Mouth. I also had another software screen readers that

Hi, I also remember Softvert and Vert Plus. Thanks.

The first computer I learned on had Votrex, also, and the first wordperfekt program that was in the computer was wordperfekt 4.2. Then There 5.0, and finally, the computer the Commission gave me had

Yes, the speakwalizer;  It seemed to be a compination screen reader and synthesizer.  I had one for a time but never got a chance to try it out.  It should have been able to read the system setup

I actually used one of those as well. It had a touch screen and as I still had some vision then I used it at times. I also remember it had 2 3.5 inch floppy drives with 720K disks which was twice the