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From: Reed.Hopkins@f7.n125.z1.fidonet.org (Reed Hopkins)
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Subject: System for housebound friend?
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Date: 17 Jul 90 19:43:24 GMT
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A friend of mine does home care for a woman who is severly disAbled
and largely housebound by spastic Cerebal Palsey.  She is suffering
increasing depression, due largely I think to lonliness and lack of
stimulation.  She has had some experience on computers at the local
Junior College though, and is able to use a keyboard. I would very
much like to get her access to the wonderful world of
telecommunications, but am at a loss where to start.

It would seem to me that there should be some means to get grants,
agency help, or private contributions for the equipment in a
circumstance like this.  Has anyone tried this? Can you tell me
what sort of organizations might be receptive to this idea?

I'm not very familiar with the low cost computers either, so I
don't even know what would be the best system to get. I see a lot
of talk about different software that I don't understand, and I
wouldn't want to end up getting a CP/M system for instance, if the
software she needs runs on MS-DOS.

Of course, I could just ask y'all direct. Does anybody have an old
system they'd like to contribute?

This WILL get done - I just don't know how yet.

Reed

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