jaws is also young! yeah!

@pauljadam More precisely, JAWS for Windows, right? I believe JAWS for DOS already existed before 1995? Still, hard to deny the crucial role this software played in the lives of many blind people. Thank you and happy 30th (or whatever the correct number is) anniversary!

I'm glad your company is celebrating the 30th anniversary of JAWS. I remember installing v1.0 from floppy disks. It's come a long, long way in 30 years.

@Thumper1964 @Bruce No, you're right. What is being celebrated is the 30th anniversary of the JAWS for Windows screen reader, not JAWS in a general sense. I don't know what year JAWS for DOS was released. I came to it later in 1991, when v2.14 was out. I respected it for its macro editor, which anyone could use. Yes, the name of the company was Henter-Joyce.

@Bruce @DavidGoldfield I have a memory of seeing pin-on buttons like you see in campaigns at the #ACB convention in 1988 festooned with Braille labels that said #JAWS on them. Job Access With Speech. Of course FS wasn’t around at the time, the company was Henter-Joyce, maybe? Anyway, I know this might be seen by some as annoying hairsplitting, but I think what is being celebrated is the 30th anniversary of JFW, JAWS for Windows. But, as I always say, my memory could very well not be as sharp as I think, and I do reserve the right to be wrong.

@Bruce @JohnGassman Artic's screen readers were ones I had heard of for years but I never owned a license for them and never got a chance to use them. They did seem to have a lot of users back in the day. The DOS screen reader landscape definitely had more choices than what we have now. Many of those programs never made the transition to Windows.

@Bruce @DavidGoldfield
ChatGPT said:
JAWS (Job Access With Speech) for DOS was introduced by Henter-Joyce in 1989. It was one of the earliest screen readers designed to help blind users navigate DOS-based systems using speech output.

@JohnGassman @DavidGoldfield I used Artic Business Vision on a Toshiba laptop back in the late eighties, early nineties.