4.1247 Qs: PCs & SW for Handicapped; GeoNet; ... (5/99)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 16 Apr 91 23:38:34 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1247. Tuesday, 16 Apr 1991.


(1) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 18:09:30 GMT (33 lines)
From: Michael O'Kelly <MOKELLY@IRLEARN>
Subject: PCs and software for the handicapped

(2) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 18:10:43 GMT (27 lines)
From: Michael O'Kelly <MOKELLY@IRLEARN>
Subject: Using computers for schools; the cottage office

(3) Date: Tue Apr 16 16:26:00 1991 (13 lines)
From: microsoft!marcosi@uunet.uu.net
Subject: posting

(4) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 14:58 CDT (13 lines)
From: 6160LACYA@MUCSD.BITNET
Subject: GeoNet

(5) Date: Tue Apr 16 12:33:53 1991 (13 lines)
From: microsoft!marcosi@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Another posting

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 18:09:30 GMT
From: Michael O'Kelly <MOKELLY@IRLEARN>
Subject: PCs and software for the handicapped

Camphill communities are villages where handicapped (particularly
but not exclusively mentally handicapped) and non-handicapped people
live together.

Friends of mine from a Camphill community here in Ireland want to
find out about how PCs could be useful for the handicapped. One
thing they want to do is to stimulate the imagination and help the
physical co-ordination of people with cerebral palsy. Such people
would not always have a mental handicap as well as the physical one.
A benefactor has undertaken to pay for what is needed; but Camphill
people are a frugal lot, and won't want to spend the earth.

BBC computers have quite a bit of hardware and software aimed at
the handicapped, developed in the UK and Ireland. But the Camphill
people are also interested in IBM-compatable and indeed any other
software and hardware.

Has anyone any information on suitable hardware and software?

Please reply to me directly. I will summarise anything of general
interest.

MOKELLY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE

Michael O'Kelly
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 18:10:43 GMT
From: Michael O'Kelly <MOKELLY@IRLEARN>
Subject: Using computers for schools; the cottage office

A friend of mine lives in a sparsely-populated part of the country
here in Ireland and wants to know about

-using computers and the networks to help run a school
with few human resources

-working from home using a computer and linking in to
databases. He believes there is an interest group for
people doing this.

Can anyone point to a source of support and information in either
of these areas?

Please reply to me directly. I will summarise anything of general
interest.

MOKELLY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE

Michael O'Kelly
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland

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Date: Tue Apr 16 16:26:00 1991
From: microsoft!marcosi@uunet.uu.net
Subject: posting

Where is it possible to retrieve electronic texts via
anonymous FTP? There's been a lot of talking recently
about electronic literature, but I can't remember
of FTPable corpora. Has anybody compiled such a list?

Thanks,

Marco Simionato <microsoft!marcosi@uunet.uu.net>

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 14:58 CDT
From: 6160LACYA@MUCSD.BITNET
Subject: GeoNet

Can anyone help with information about GeoNet? In theory they have a
publication called "Deutschland Nachrichten" available every Friday
morning over their network. Is this a commercial network only? Can one
FTP to it?

Thanks in advance.

Alan F. Lacy
6160lacya@vmsf.csd.mu.edu

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Date: Tue Apr 16 12:33:53 1991
From: microsoft!marcosi@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Another posting

[...]

Does anybody know of a discussion list on piano music/interpretation
or for collector's classical records?

Thanks,

Marco Simionato <microsoft!marcosi@uunet.uu.net>