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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Subject: OSCAR IMPRESSIVE AT A GOOD PRICE
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Date: 5 Feb 91 20:08:22 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 GD> At this same technology show I saw the Oscar and I have to admit it was
 GD> worth waiting for.  Apparently many people here were standing in line
 GD> allthe way to the front door to look at the Oscar and I didn't see one who
 GD> was disappointed.  It read everything I fed it from Dot Matrix that the
 GD> Kurzweil couldn't get through to bank statements, dull copies ETC.

Grant, did they have a sighted person scanning the material, or a
blind person.  At the ACB convention, donna took the rules to the
uno game down to have it scanned by the arkenstone, and it was a
mess, and she went down to the oscar booth, and had them scan it,
and it was much better.  Now, the person who did this for her, told
her that the reason they did a better job, was that it took some
sight to get it scanned properly because of the material.  The
person who scanned it for her at arkenstone was blind, and that was
why it was so much better.  Now, if it takes a sighted person to
get some material scanned good, that won't do for a blind person.

There is no doubt from what I have seen that the arkenstone system
will do better than the kpr.

The oscar is priced higher than the arkenstone.

               Walter

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