Oh my Gods Vert! I've got the disks and synth for it but I'll be damned if I can use it. It's more complicated than dos itself! I love the synth and wish I could use it for other stuff (same voice as the Language Master and the Keynote Voicecard) but unfortunately, it only works with Vert. Anne, you might wanna torrent that book. I'm sure it's out there somewhere. Scott, I'm sincerely tempted and eager to see what you have. I've got a ton of stuff myself but sadly, I never got to use it. But hopefully, I'll be able to set up my machines in the near future. Now I wanna try this Outspoken. I'm getting jealous! lol When I looked up Apple II on Wikipedia it said that you can run OS 9 on the IIGS? What? Am I insane or did it really say that?
Later, Eleni On 19/04/2009, Cameron <came...@cameronstrife.com> wrote: > > Hi. I agree. Back in the day, When I used Outspoken on my Macintosh II S > I, and then on my powerbook later, I was able to get many things done and I > found it to be an efficient way to work. I really grew to like outspoken as > well as my macs. > > I found outspoken's commands and implementation very logical. > > It didn't get in the way of work flow. > > And yes, the mark feature was nice to have! > > That mac II S I, which I bought second hand, was my first computer. I loved > that little box and it never crashed on me or anything. > > I remember using one of the very early macs, the classic with the grayscale > screen, years and years ago. > > My memories of making the switch over to windows 95 and jfw 3.2 I think it > was, are not as nice. > > Cameron. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:59 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: oldschool mac nostalgia > > > Hey there. > I sorta have to protest here.:-) Outspoken was a hell of a good screen > reader for being as primitive as it seemed. Ok, you didn't have all > those fancy things you can do nowadays with screen readers, but it had > quite a lot of inventive tricks that you could do. For graphical > objects that couldn't be recognized, i.e you knew the position of the > object, but you didn't see a graphic, there was a "mark" feature that > saved its marks on a per application basis, as i recall. You could > name a position and then go to that position by typing the name you > gave it. Vo has something similar in its bookmarks and hotspots, only > you can't save the positions and they disappear as soon as you close a > document and or an application. Too bad in my opinion. > There were other things too that were very clever, for example the way > they had solved the drag and drop problem. > /Krister > > > 19 apr 2009 kl. 11.23 skrev Jessi Rathwell: > >> >> yeah, that would be interesting, a history lesson about accessibility. >> although, it doesn't seem like there was too much accessibility before >> VO. outspoken seemed like it only did so much. that's funny people >> were protesting against GUI's though, although I can see how they >> might think that. I'm sure going from a completely text based command >> line to a completely graphical interface would've been scary back in >> the day. >> peace and positivity >> Jessi >> follow me on twitter www.twitter.com/canadian_diva >> On 19-Apr-09, at 2:16 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> There were no such names as "tiger" or "leopard" at that time. As far >>> as i remember the system was called "system 7". I think it was called >>> "Macos" from v8 or possibly v9 but i can be wrong. >>> It would be interesting with a little history lesson from a blindness >>> perspective of apple products through the years. For example, when >>> did >>> the Mac become accessible for the first time and what were the >>> reactions back then? Here in Sweden in the year of 1989, the >>> organization for the young visually impaired actually demonstrated >>> against the coming GUIs. They thought that that would more or less be >>> the death of accessibility to computers for the blind and the threat >>> was called Macintosh. >>> /Krister >>> >>> >>> 18 apr 2009 kl. 21.59 skrev Jessi Rathwell: >>> >>>> >>>> haha wow! what was OS7 called? lol. I'm really curious about the >>>> rest >>>> of the OS's! like I know all OS10s are cat names, but what about >>>> before? lol. >>>> On 18-Apr-09, at 12:23 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> My first computer experiences was on a Mac Classic, i think it was >>>>> called that ran os 7. I was one of the two, i think, in Sweden who >>>>> ran >>>>> Macs with Outspoken at that time. I absolutely loved that screen >>>>> reader. >>>>> /Krister >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 18 apr 2009 kl. 20.23 skrev Mark Baxter: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I went to college with an Apple 2C and an Echo Cricket which I did >>>>>> all >>>>>> my papers on. This was 1986-90, and the whole Dartmouth campus >>>>>> was >>>>>> wired for Macs. My roommate used to taunt me with the "talking >>>>>> moose," application on his Mac 640. I eventually had to trash the >>>>>> 2C >>>>>> when its disk drive crashed and I couldn't get parts for it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark BurningHawk >>>>>> >>>>>> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >>>>>> MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >>>>>> My home page: >>>>>> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
