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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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Subject: Re: How Does One Access a Hearing Impaired TTY
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In article <15495@accuvax.nwu.edu>  hpubvwa!ssc!Tad.Cook@
cs.washington.edu writes:

> I helped a hearing impaired friend shop for a computer, and I
> installed a 2400 bps modem and terminal software for her.  She found
> modem communications in the chat mode quite liberating.

My sister in law is deaf, and at various times I have given her a
terminal, a modem, and all sorts of information about the same. She
now has a PC with a modem ... and after all that, she just called us
via one of those deaf-relay operators. She found it too much trouble
to arrange a time to call us directly. Sigh.


Peter da Silva  +1 713 274 5180    peter@ferranti.com