[Ham-Computers] Installed new SATA hard drive, brief problem overcome

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Isn't this new technology wonderful?

Here I sit with three computers and I have to take two apart to make one 
work! No place to plug the parallel port Laser printer into etc. To a 
sighted person it is a 'so what' issue, but when a blind person has had to 
spend ten thousand dollars on adaptive technology "just" so he/she could use 
their $700 computer, it is no "so what" issue!

The ridiculous pricing is obviously aimed not at the handicapped person, but 
at the "big" spenders; government, rehab instutions, colleges, school 
systems, big business etc. Unfortunately, after a student or a rehab prson 
is "properly trained for life in the not handicapped world", they send them 
out there butt naked! That is, with no technology, no assistance in getting 
any, no job but lots of wishes for finding and getting a job! The usual 
equal opportunity that assures all that nobody gets anything!

I am extremely fortunate to have a computer that has speech capability, I am 
blessed and able to write my own program coe to create software to help me 
do what I must do to live, and angry over the ridiculous amount of money it 
costs just for a blind person to use a computer. Then I think about the fact 
that I am probably the one person in ten thousand who has one and that makes 
me even more angry. What good is adaptive technology when the very people it 
is supposedly designed to help can no way afford it?

So now that I am retired for medical reasons, I have to live with the 
constant daily fear that my computer systems that I can live without are 
going to fail. There is no way now on what I must live on that I can afford 
to replace the adaptive technology.

I was silly enough to believe that when the cost of the technology came down 
that the products would also. I even thought that with the speech technology 
costing only a few dollars instead of five hundred+, that new devices to 
assist the handicapped would become available. Boy was I wrong on both 
points! The prices went up and many of the products vanished. Almost no new 
products were introduced, other then for show off teasers at the CES!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip, KO6BB" <ndb_fch-344 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Installed new SATA hard drive,brief problem 
overcome


> Duane,
>
> I did try that before searching the MS site, but it didn't help any.
>
> Phil, KO6BB
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
>
>
>>I wonder what would have happened if you had just turned the machine off 
>>and rebooted it? It may have found the drive and assigned a drive letter?
>>
>
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