[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Sat Jan 28 16:39:30 EST 2023


Would love to find a working express, but with a functional battery.



On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, Mike wrote:

> 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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