That is, until he left.  Within an hour I had so much static coming through my speakers that I couldn’t understand what my synthesizer was saying.
     First thing Monday morning I called the salesman, he sent me new speakers via UPS, and I was, I thought, finally on my way to joining the ACB list.
     I learned, however, that the supposedly easy process of getting on line was not always so easy.  For one thing, in order to get on line with the provider I’d chosen I needed to unload my speech program, which left me scrambling for some way to read the on-screen instructions  I was supposed to follow.