I’ve never heard of Power Zoom. Back then there was Windvision from Artic and and Mastertouch with the touch template. I used that in high school after leaving the school for the blind.
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> On Nov 20, 2020, at 3:02 PM, Albert Ruel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I started my Windows experience with Windows 3.1 using Screen Power as my first screen reader and moved over to JAWS in 1996 after attending the NFB convention and purchasing a copy of their demo disk. I haven't looked back since, although I do play with NVDA and Narrator from time to time.
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> Thx, Albert
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> I would also be interested. For a few years I had Windows 3.0 with Window Eyes. For a synthesizer I had an old Keynote Companion, and very seldom used Windows.This was in college in Michigan.I was one of those people who vowed to never use Windows consistently, but that changed when I took a class on Windows 95.
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>> On Nov 20, 2020, at 2:05 PM, Christopher Chaltain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> My understanding was that Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were pretty much
>> failures. It wasn't until Windows 3.1 that Windows really took off.
>> When most people think of their first version of Windows in the late
>> 80's, they're thinking of Windows 3.1.
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>>> [log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Colin Howard
>>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:47 AM
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>>> Subject: [VICUG-L] 20 November, 1985.
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>>> Greetings,
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>>> On BBC Radio 4's News Briefing for today, I learnt, it was on this
>>> day in
>> 1985,
>>> MicroSoft released it's very first version of the Windows operating
>> system,
>>> entitled Windows Version 1.0.
>>>
>>> I would be very interested to learn if, possibly, even after all this
>> time, anybody
>>> has a machine with Windows V1.0 running? I would be interested to
>>> lern of experiences of W V1.0, even as a sighted person.
>>>
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