[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

[Mike]

You are right. It was the kurzweil personal reader model 7315. And yes my
neck talking expresses battery is fine.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 1:12 PM Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
wrote:

> The reading edge did not come with a hand scanner.  Perhaps you are
> confusing it with another product?
> Instead the reading edge is a self contained book edge scanner  weighing
> less than  15 pounds.
> does our Dectalk Expresses battery still work?
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, Mike wrote:
>
> > Yeah unfortunately there was no training that I remember anyway. I was
> only
> > like  10 years old at the time and what I was using it for, I'm sure, was
> > not great quality print to begin with, mostly elementary school
> worksheets
> > and paperbacks. I do remember having more success with the hand scanner
> > that it came with though.
> >
> > I am glad yours still works. I believe mine was given  back when I got a
> > computer with a separate scanner later. I do still have the same DecTalk
> > Express that I got at that time and that still works perfectly
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 9:29 PM Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Who trained  you?
> >> If you did not get training, that might have impacted the experience.  I
> >> have used one  to manage professional materials since I got mine in 1993
> >> or so...almost daily in fact.
> >> however, one must know how to make small adjustments, depending on what
> >> you were reading, choose the best type of scan as well.
> >> Its why at least Xerox made sure when you got one, you got trained too.
> >> Sorry your experience was not stellar.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Mike wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jeeze that's a lot. Somehow my school got one for me at that time and
> >>> it was almost completely useless anyway because the OCR was horrible.
> >>>
> >>> On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I was right? The reading edge with decTalk made in 1992 was around
> >> $6000.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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