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I have the BT Speak tutorial in my Bookplayer app, as one of the many things to occupy me on this long journey. I love it! It's got that kind of retro vibe, man, it's like the tutorials I used to listen to on cassette when I was a spotty youth, who never dreamed in a million years he'd be doing what he's doing now. Steve's done a great job.
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I'm very glad you like it. @sclower did a phenomenal job recording and editing the #BTSpeak tutorial.
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@DavidGoldfield Thank you. I grew up listening to the late, great, Fred Gissoni as a child and was aiming for a similar vibe in the BT Speak tutorial. Seemed appropriate.
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@chris @DavidGoldfield I was already into AT a bit because I loved playing with BEX, Talking Writer, and similar software on the Apple IIE, but the BNS tutorials were a major step up and sucked me in the rest of the way.
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@sclower @DavidGoldfield The thing about me, I had no interest in computers. I got the bns not thinking/knowing it was a computer and ate it up. LOL.
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@chris @sclower @DavidGoldfield I think I got my first BNS in 1987 or 1988. It was an absolute game changer for me. The manual came on two cassettes, or was it three cassettes.
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@kevinrussell @sclower @DavidGoldfield I got mine in 1989 in high school. I thought it was the greatest thing. I think you had to upgrade to get a stop watch or something.
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David Goldfield
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@chris @kevinrussell @sclower Yep, the Braille 'n Speak classic had an optional $99.00 upgrade for a calculator along with the stopwatch and countdown timer. Eventually, these became standard features in the later models and the calculator eventually expanded to include scientific and various conversion functions.
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@DavidGoldfield @chris @sclower I wish I could remember the name of the person who read the manual. Could it have been Robert Hart?
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Steve
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@kevinrussell @DavidGoldfield @chris Fred Gissoni read the original manual, and Olga Espanola authored and read the guides starting with the 640.
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@sclower @kevinrussell @DavidGoldfield @chris yes I remember running into Olga at Freedom Scientific and I was star struck! I rambled on incoherently about what a legend she is. I think she was quite bemused.
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@sclower @kevinrussell @chris Olga was and I'm sure is still a rock star. I worked alongside her proofreading several of her manuals and she was great to work with.
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@DavidGoldfield @sclower @kevinrussell @chris Yep. I got a BNS in 1987. it was a game changer for me. I could do most of my homework on the ride home from school so that I had more time on the radio. I used both BEX and MathemaTix so that I could write Nemeth Code for my algebra, geometry and pre-calculus classes.
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@DavidGoldfield @sclower @kevinrussell @chris I'd love to get a BTSpeak, but I'm not sure how it would be positioned in my current tech stack as I already have an iPhone, HableOne, VictorReader Stream, a couple of Braille displays and several laptop computers.
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