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I join in Peter's request for more information about this computer. I have
a 1994 66MHz Gateway computer on which I still occasionally generate
documents with WordPerfect 5.1. Needless to say, that computer will not
last forever; indeed, given that I have it on pretty much all the time, I'm
surprised it has lassted this long.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Mikochik" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] A new dos computer
wow, how much fun.
a mini dos computer.
please more details on where to find this computer.
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, .dan. wrote:
> I know there are still some blind dos users. I recently got a new one. It
> is
> a bit different then the machines with which old dos users might be
> familiar.
>
> It is small, the mother board is a 4 inch square. It has tons of
> connectivity with all the expected ports plus network and usr ports.
>
> It uses a flash chip as the hard drive. Needless to say access times to
> run
> applications and write to it are much faster then other hard drives. A
> conventional drive including floppy and cd can also be used if I had
> chosen.
> Because it uses a wall wart for a power supply there are no moving parts
> at
> all and no noise. Any failure in the future will not be mechanical such
> as a
> hard drive buying the farm.
>
> It is 500 mhz so no problem with having to use a slow down utility to use
> some old dos programs. I have on hand many of the familiar dos programs
> including ocr if I choose to use them. I use it primarily to connect via
> a
> sireal port to my mac machine where I run unix applications in the mac os
> and
> connect to the internet via the same route.
>
> I use dos speech via an external synth and dosscreen reading software.
> This
> provides the powerand level of control of dos screen reading that has yet
> to
> be reached by any gui based os. There is a generation of blind users who
> have never known dos and don't realize how powerful speech in it was and
> what
> they are missing.
>
> At the same time all this can be happening while the mac is active. I can
> turn to it and do any mac task. The same using windows should be as easy.
> The host machine doesn't even know another machine is connected and active
> at
> the same time.
>
> XB
> IC|XC
>
>
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