It’s another busy and varied week here, but I did want to pop in to say how much I enjoyed representing the National Federation of the Blind, along with my colleague Jesse Shirek, at an Apple-organized event focusing on #accessibility celebrating Apple’s 50th birthday.
The original wave of Apple accessibility, in the late 1970s and early to mid-80s, was very much grass roots driven, and in the April 1 episode of Access On, the National Federation of the Blind’s podcast, we’re going to be celebrating that period of technology history by speaking with some people who lived it, and even doing a few demos.
@JonathanMosen OK, you vintage tech enthusiasts, it's time to crank up those Apple 2Es for a demo. Sorry I'm not one of them but I missed the initial Apple wave, although I did read about it.
@DavidGoldfield I used my Apple 2e for 11 years. I had replaced 4 chips on the motherboard so that it was an enhanced 2e. I had 7 of 8 slots filled including a mouse and a stereo sound board called a Phasor which emulated both a cricket and a Mockingboard. I loved my Apple 2e. I had so many addins for Appleworks by Beagle Bros. I could do a ton of extra things with Appleworks. I could also program in Dos and ProDos in Basic as well as Assembler using a Compiler.Sometimes I still miss that computer I called Bubba. I went from my Apple 2e right to my Gateway 2000 running Windows 95. It was quite a shock.
@blind5sparrow That's impressive. I think I'd have really liked the 2E had I owned one but I went from a VersaBraille to a Braille 'n Speak along with DOS. If I had owned an Apple I'd have definitely put it to good use. Were you a Wordtalk user? That's the only program I used on an older Apple.
@DavidGoldfield I had enough low vision back then I stuck my head an inch from the screen most of the time and used programs most people never heard of like Garfields cartoon creater, Dell Crossword Puzzle Creator. Bouncing Kamungas which was a crazy game. I had dozens of floppies. the old 5.25 floppies. I even had something called Nibble editor and could undelete entire floppies.
@blind5sparrow @DavidGoldfield I inadvertently heard Nipple editor and had to review. Lol!