Peter,

Do you know if this calculator is available?  The web page

http://dots.physics.orst.edu/agc.html

says it will be available for download in late 1998 but that time has come
and gone and I can't find the calculator.  It talks about some of the audio
graphing stuff but I'd like to know if you know where one might get the
calculator from the Science Access Project.



At 02:40 PM 2/4/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> The Science Access project has developed a Windows 95 program that
>> can be used on a small notebook computer as a powerful scientific
>> calculator, including the ability to compute and plot functions
>> y(x). The plot is visible on the screen and can also be "viewed"
>> conveniently in audio.
>
>> The audio plot displays y vs. x by mapping the x axis to time and the
>> y axis to tone. Preliminary results from [Comparison tests] made by
>> several hundred sighted undergraduate and graduate students have
>> indicated that simple audio graphs of this type are almost as
>> effective in conveying information as visual graphs.
>
>Similar functionality is also available as an option
>under function key F8 in "The vOICe Learning Edition -
>Seeing with your Ears" software, running on Windows 95,
>98 or NT and available from
>
>   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer/winvoice.htm
>
>The audio function plot option is to be used in combination
>with a screen reader such as Jaws for Windows in order to
>access the regular Windows dialog box controls. Note: this
>software requires a PC camera connected to the PC in view
>of its normal more general use for hearing printed graphs
>and even hearing your visual environment.
>
>Back to math function plotting:
>
>The vOICe's audio function plot dialog allows you to
>specify a symbolic function such as 5*sin(x) and set
>x and y ranges for plotting, with or without hearing
>the x and y axes. All the usual mathematical functions
>such as sin(x), sqrt(x) and exp(x) are supported, using
>a common C-like syntax. Constants like pi and e are
>predefined and can be entered as #pi and #e.
>
>Individual points of the specified function can also
>be evaluated and results accessed via your screen
>reader.
>
>A brief description of the function plot option is
>given on the web page
>
>   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer/winvoic2.htm
>
>Requests for extensions will be considered for future
>releases.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Peter Meijer
>
>
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