--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFB00004Date: 11/06/96 From: ANN SABONAITIS Time: 01:13pm \/To: MARK SENK (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: os2 warp HI, LONG TIME NO TYPE. I CANNQ DO HAMMING ANY MORE BECAUSE MY MS IS TOO ADVANCE%D. SHE SHACK IS IN THE CELLR AND THERES NO ROOM UPSTAIRS IN THE HOUSE. SO I'M LUCKY I CAN STILL USE MY COMPUTER. ANYWAY MY SCHEDULE IS DIFFERENT. I HAVE A HOUSEKEEPER. SINCE F CRAWBL AROUND I CANT DO IT MYSELF. BESIDES ALTHOUGH I TRIED PACKET RADIO IT SICPLY WONT WORK HERE--THE ANTENNA WAS TOO LOW--NO WAY 6O RAISE IT. BUT I FIND MYSELF GETTING HEVILY INVOLVED WITH BBSING--RIGHT NOW ONMY VB BUT BRAILLE LITE WORKS VERY WELL. --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #66 * Origin: Keystone BBS * Shrewsbury, MA * 508-753-3767 (1:322/743.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFB00005Date: 11/06/96 From: ANN SABONAITIS Time: 01:19pm \/To: ANNE PAGE (Read 2 times) Subj: HI GUESSWHAQ? THE PRINGT BOOK WITH HELEN STEINER RICE'S POEMS IS ALREAD.DY BRAILLED BY LOIS' GROUP. ITS AT THE BRAILLE PROOFREADER'S NOW. SO THAT SAVES YOU FROM ALL THAT WORK SINCE ITS ALREADY BAEN DONE. I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN ITS IN MY HANDS IN CASE SOMEONE HERE WOULD LIKE A BRAILLE CQY. --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #66 * Origin: Keystone BBS * Shrewsbury, MA * 508-753-3767 (1:322/743.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFB00006Date: 11/06/96 From: WILLIAM WILSON Time: 09:47pm \/To: MIKE FREEMAN (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: ELECT WHO? MF> OTOH Dole's voice last night was getting raspy enough he sounded MF> like Goldwater! Think I know how I'm gonna vote. MF> Ahem, Willie; you noticed I didn't say so as not to stir up MF> contraversy. Mike, If you ask me, we could use a little controversy around here! Things have been MUCH too quiet lately! Btw, now that it's all over, I doubt there are vast numbers of either extremely happy or extremely sad voters! I mean, we still have the same, middle of the road democrat executive branch of our government, and we have a slightly less radical republican dominated congress, so I'm betting most people are viewing the election the same as me... 4 more years, just like the past few years, with no big surprises, good or bad. It could be worse Mike, it could be worse! Willie ... Defend your right to bear armed blinks! --- Via Silver Xpress V4.3 BT006 * Origin: BlinkLink - Perceiving is believing! 412-766-0732 (1:129/89) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFB00007Date: 11/05/96 From: MIKE FREEMAN Time: 10:32am \/To: DONALD BELEW (Read 2 times) Subj: INQUIRING MIND WANTS!!! In a message to Laura Mulraney <02 Nov 96 10:28> Donald Belew wrote: DB> being done successfully. A couple of DB> days ago, I went to one of those DB> presentations on a homebased business; DB> namely a company called Qcomm a DB> longdistance calling card company; DB> guess what, the typical spend three thousand DB> dollars and you to can be a workshop DB> attendee. Otherwise, you know what!!! DB> fill in the rest... Anyway I will Man, scams seem a dime a dozen these days. Must be a sign of the changing economy. Not a day goes by but what I get at least one message offering me this or that product or service over the Internet. All I must do is "click here" for more info or mail back something -- and the stuff's free, you know -- just put down your credit card number here . Either that or I can't count the number of "Make Money Fast ..." posts I've seen during the last six months. on the Internet. Man, the number of gullible people is to me unbelievable! To me, a chain letter is a chain letter is a chain letter whether instigated on paper or electronically. But some are sufficiently desperate to grasp at starws (or wires), I guess. Mike Freeman --- PCRR QWK 1.60 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Pacifier Online Data Service (1:105/101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFJ00000Date: 11/05/96 From: EVERETT HERTENSTEIN Time: 10:31pm \/To: WALT CONE (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: IS FIDONET FATALLY ILL? Walt Cone wrote in a message to Everett Hertenstein: RE: Doslynx WC> From what I remember, it is a real pain to set up. WC> Sorry I could not help you more, Thanks! That's more than I knew before I asked. Everett Internet: evhert@juno.com --- * Origin: My Point -=- Nashville TN. (1:116/17.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFJ00001Date: 11/06/96 From: BRYAN HANKS Time: 03:42pm \/To: TAMMY KLAUS (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Blind tag First Tammy said, "Blind tag" to Bryan, but then... TK> Brian, where *did* you dig up this little gem? I have added it to my TK> collection. Hehe - I dunno! I just see 'em as I call 'em. :) ... I mean *LINES*, ducky. Can you handle lines? --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: The Fireside BBS Houston, Texas (1:106/114) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFJ00002Date: 11/07/96 From: ANNE PAGE Time: 09:21am \/To: ANN SABONAITIS (Read 2 times) Subj: HI Hi, Ann. That's wonderful news about the Helen Steiner Rice poems being brailled. Now you will be able to have a lot of them instead of just the few I was going to get from my mother. I hadn't gotten them yet because she couldn't find the box in which she keeps her supply of greeting cards for various occasions. She thinks it might be on the top shelf of her closet but hasn't felt well enough to get down all the boxes of stuff she has stored there to see which one is the greeting cards. Her arthritis is bothering her a lot these days and she is facing surgery in early December (not for something life-threatening) so I have not wanted to bother her about the poems. Now I don't need to. That is good. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Texas K9 Police Association On-Line Library (1:124/4220) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFJ00003Date: 11/07/96 From: ANN SABONAITIS Time: 03:24pm \/To: ANNE PAGE (Read 2 times) Subj: "HI GUESS WHAT? LISA TALINGER IS ON KEY-BBS! THATS1-800-790-2647. I INVITE YOU FRIENDS THERE--VERY PEACEFUL AND WHEN YOU DONT WANT ANYONE TO READ YOUR MAIL NO PROBLEM--ITS PRIVATE! WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC FORUM BUT YOU CAN ALSO USE PRIVATE EMAIL 6OTOO. I TELL MY FRIENDS TO LEAVE EMAIL TO ANN. WHEN IT SAYS WHICH ONE, JUST TYPE 1--FIRST CHOICE. --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #66 * Origin: Keystone BBS * Shrewsbury, MA * 508-753-3767 (1:322/743.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFJ00004Date: 11/07/96 From: IRENE HAMPTON Time: 12:17pm \/To: EDUARDO GOMEZ (Read 2 times) Subj: Ottawa Telephone Directory on Dos Dear Eduardo I hope this is a good way to get more information. i am hoping to get the Ottawa telephone directory from Specil needs Bell Canada. . The person i was talking to said they wold send me my telephone bill in Grad two Braille. What Fun .... Do you know anyone who has the Ottawa Directory on three and a half inch floppy to be run through DOS on Artic Vision? Irene --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Vision Information Systems (1:163/266) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DFJ00005Date: 11/07/96 From: JIM KITCHEN Time: 07:41am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Sun tv Hi All, Last week I was talking to Philip Vlasak ( the author of the shoot96, tenpin96 and the golf96 games ) he told me that I could buy a new stereo television for about two hundred dollars. So I went to a Sun TV store ( on a field trip with the activity center that I go to ). I bought using my Visa card a twenty inch RCA stereo television. When I got home and took it out of the box I found out that it was defective. Apparently when they were putting it together the front of the plastic cabinet and the back did not come together correctly and the corner bound up leaving a gap across the top and a larger one down the side. It also caused the base to split. I called the store and since I had no way to take the set back to them I asked them to bring me out a replacement. I talked to several people and got conflicting stories but basically they said that they could not bring me out a replacement. So my Mom drove out from thirty miles away to take me back to the store. We took the television set back and asked for my money back. So the lady went to give me a $ 274.90 credit on my Visa card. She accidently added an extra zero and gave me a $ 2,749.00 credit. So she tried to charge my card with the amount that would make up the difference. But my card only has a five hundred dollar line of credit. I ended up standing there for over an hour while they called Visa and then the main branch of my bank trying to get permission to charge my account with the amount. Apparently they were never given permission to because I went to my bank and asked about the status of my credit card. The teller got all confused and asked her supervisor about a minus sign in front of the 2 thousand and some odd dollars. I told them what had happened and they said that they would fix it for me. I told them that it wasn't really necessary to do so but they insisted. I am going to wait a couple of days and then go back to see if it is straightened out. I ended up buying a Magnavox nineteen inch stereo television from Sears. It is connected to my computers sound card which then sends it to my stereo. It sounds really great! And I can now record wav files directly off of the television. Jim Instant Human: Just Add Coffee... --- InterEcho 1.18 * Origin: PC-Ohio PCBoard * Cleveland, OH * 216-381-3320 (1:157/200)