Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26!Stu.Turk From: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Info Needed Message-ID: <12143@bunker.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 90 17:47:33 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/26 - SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 20 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 8574 > has a tdd with modem capabilities, but she says that she has to > send it back to Super Print to have the "module" put into it. She is on a very > slim income. > My question is, is Lynn being given the run-around like they do to > the blind, telling us we have to send our equipment back to the factory just > so they can keep their monopoly? What is this module? Is it hardware or = Ask your friend what make TDD it is and what, exactly, the factory said they were going to add (and how much is it). TDDs have only a one line display of 20 characters and I would think that reading the msg's here would be very difficult for her. You might suggest that she consider putting the money toward a regular MS-DOS computer instead so she can get the full screen and we can get a msgnification program to her. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26!Stu.Turk Internet: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org