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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!pepper
- From: pepper@shell.portal.com (Angelique N Wahlstedt)
- Subject: Re: TTY noise?
- Message-ID: <C1E07r.HFD@unix.portal.com>
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- Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
- References: <9301241107.AA01871@silver.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:59:51 GMT
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- In article <9301241107.AA01871@silver.lcs.mit.edu> Seth Gordon <sethg@SILVER.LCS.MIT.EDU> writes:
-
- >My last roommate was a Deaf grad student at BC. He couldn't afford
- >to by one, so he borrowed one from his girlfriend ... a "Superphone"
- >that looked like it was made in the 1960's.
-
- Hmpf! Those Superphones may look quaint (I used to have one) but they were
- the best TDD's ever made in my humble opinion. That's because they had a
- *regular* keyboard with the same feel as that of an IBM Selectric typewriter.
- While they werne't exactly portable, you could type for hours and hours on
- those darned things. (Which I have done so on several occasions. :-)
-
- Sigh...egronomics (sp?) definitely is *not* a concept that many TDD makers
- have ever grasped. Nor industrial design, for that matter...let's face it,
- many TDD's and related items for the deaf (such as doorbell monitors) are
- ugly-looking. :-)
-
- --
- Angeli "Ms. Pepper" Wahlstedt (pepper@shell.portal.com)
-
- "If nobody else was violent, I could conquer the whole stupid planet with
- just a butter knife." - Dogbert
-