Off topic, just have to vent!

[Ed Barnes]

Hi Doug and list.
Actually Doug I actually have my first machine kicking around here as
well and it is a similar setup to the one you described Doug.
However, mine is a tad bit newer haven been received in 1989 and it has
I think BV 3.03 on it.
In my case the battery still holds out I believe and I think you can see
the screen though I've not booted it in a dog's age, should probably do
so to just check out its status.
I have also thought about setting it up as a terminal to use for
interacting with the HP 712 I have here which runs HP-UX version 11
though in some ways it is pointless as i can do that interaction even
better from a Linux box running speakup.
To add to this topic I have an Accent SA from 1989, it's actually what's
connected to my Linux box, and I have an Accent PC sitting in my filing
cabinet and I think it's from 1988 or 89 though I only obtained it about
4 or 5 years ago.
Regards to all.
Ed Barnes

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Doug Lawlor wrote:

> Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Off topic, just have to vent!
>
> The first machine I had was a Toshiba T1200 with an 8086 processer
> that could be turbo charged? up to 8 MHZ and a
> 20MB hard disk.  It even had 640K of ram!   It did not have the back lit
> screen though.  That was an option I didn't need.  If I remember
> correctly the caust was about $4500 CDN direct from Artic Technologies
> with the Artic internal card which fitted into that strange slot in the
> back and Business Vision v2.0 something.  That was back in about august
> of 88.  I still have it but the LCD is screwed up and the battery pack
> has given up the goast.
>
> Doug
>
>