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From: Marda.Anderson@p0.f4.n393.z1.fidonet.org (Marda Anderson)
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Subject: Re: ARKENSTONE Special Deal
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Date: 3 Mar 90 05:07:17 GMT
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Personally, I am very glad that Les posted his announcement of the 
Arkenstone.  I have been wanting to purchase one for a long time.  It 
has been proven to be a very good product and does indeed do as Les 
says it does.  This special deal really is a good thing for those of us 
who could not normally afford to purchase such equipment and such 
equipment does serve to increase the independence of visually impaired 
people in all sorts of ways.  It is exciting to me that I will probably 
now be able to buy this system and will be able to access my personal 
mail, affording me the dignity of privacy which I have always so 
desperately craved.  It is exciting that I will be able to have timely 
access to such things without having to wait for someone's convenience 
to read things to me.  The possibilities for increasing my ability to 
function on an equal level with sighted classmates, without having to 
scrounge up readers or wait months for books to be put on tape, is 
awesome to think about.  Certainly, this system does not totally 
eliminate the need for people ot help look up things in the library and 
stuff like that.  But this technology does indeed hold a lot of promise 
for us   and the Arkenstone is, from the research I've done, the one 
that seems to be the greatest value for the money.  It really does seem 
to have advantages over more expensive machines as well.  I find it 
interesting that Les cross posted his original announcement in both 
this echo and in blinktalk.  IN blinktalk, the announcement was warmly 
received because everybody there appreciated the value of the equipment 
and the intent of the message, to get the equipment to as many visually 
impaired people as possible who wouldn't perhaps be able to get it 
otherwise.  I didn't see any hype in that message.  I knew enough 
already about the equipment to know he was telling the truth and I saw 
his motives.  It disturbs me to think that something like that would 
generate such controversy in an echo where we're supposed to be helping 
each other.   
marda

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