not sure if dell has this, i know the toshiba laptops do, there is a wheel 
lookin' thing on the side of the screen that moves the screen or makes it 
bigger or something.
sorry i'm not much help on this one

matt


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On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Kevin Nathan wrote:

> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:05:24 -0700
> From: Kevin Nathan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Screen Display on Laptop
> 
> Hi All,
>
> I know this may seem kind of funny for a list of blind persons but I am
> looking for some advice.  This weekend, at our club's field day event, I
> brought my old Toshiba 486 laptop with Keynote Gold and ASAP already loaded
> on board.  However, when we plugged it in, it generated so much noise that
> it wiped out 20 meters on my TS-480.  As a result, we had to use my friend's
> laptop without speech all weekend.  I also have a Del laptop here which is
> running Windows 98 and I have loaded ASAP on it using the Keynote Gold
> External synthesizer for dos and TRLog.  But, when I brought it to our last
> club meeting to demonstrate TRLog, the screen only is about half size and is
> very hard for sighted persons to read.
>
> Does anyone on the list know what may cause this half screen display
> phenomenon?  I am running it booting to DOS first for running TRLog so it is
> coming up in pure DOS.
>
> I sure would appreciate any feedback since it looks as if I am going to have
> to go to the Del for future operations and I still haven't found a windows
> logging program I like as well as TR.
>
> thanks much and very 73 to all.
> --------------------
> Kevin :)
> Amateur Radio:  K7RX
>