[nfbmi-talk] Off Topic: RE: dell

[joe harcz Comcast]

I don't think any of this is off topic per se and I value the input and the 
fact that I can for a moderate price back up all that I've done. Thanks Fred 
for the cite and thanks Georgia for the question.

As an aside and on topic observation I will get an Apple computer to replace 
this one when it is dead as I will not pay the price to both upgrade my PC 
and the additional price to upgrade, at the same cost to me, my screen 
reader.

I sincerely hope that all second party vendors realize the concept of 
universal design implide and promoted here. The day for this is not 
tomorrow, but, rather it is at hand.


Just as I remember the day in 1990 or 91 when I paid six hundred bucks to 
upgrade my pc to a 20 mg hardrive and now I can as, Fred suggests get a 
terra byte for $150. I and all can also get built in speech for nothing with 
apple products including, of course for less than two hundred dollars the 
I-phone which actually has more power and capacity than my older and now 
virtually defunct 2001 HP lap top (with 15 gigs btw). Shoot I can get that 
for less than forty dollars on a thumb drive at retail in any store for 
crying out loud.

What all this says to me and on the blindness issue is that the day is not 
only coming but is here where we, the blind won't have to pay one more 
nickel for that that is readily given or expendended by anyone else.

Man, I'm just waiting for Verizon to pick up the I-phone and I, and we in 
the revolution of accessable technology will join the rest of the human race 
at the same price and with the same options that are universal to everyone.

Sorry third party vendors, really I am... sorry Microsoft...Oh well not 
really Billy Gates...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 9:39 PM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Off Topic: RE: dell


> Hi,
>
> I'm afraid it is off topic.  If we need to converse on this please write
> off-list.  I do not know for sure but believe you can buy a generic drive
> for Dell computers.  I will say that with the low price of USB hard drives
> these days, I saw a 1 TB drive  on Blind Bargains, today for $100, this
> seems like the best solution to hard drives unless yours has simply failed
> altogether.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of gkitchen
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 9:26 PM
> To: NFB of Michigan List
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] dell
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope this isn't off topic. Anyway, I was told that Dell computers were
> proprietary--meaning that if your hard drive failed you n had to order one
> from dell rather than just buy an Seagate or an off brand off the 
> internet.
> Is this true??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Georgia
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