discover@loop.uucp (Robert Jaquiss) (12/11/90)
Index Number: 12437
[Note from Bill McGarry: Sigh, I know that some of you readers will
feel that this article is not appropriate for this newsgroup (or
mailing list). However, since this is a new company and since
Robert Jaquiss has been a frequent contributor of articles and
since there have been requests for names of Arkenstone dealers
from some readers, here it is.]
Disc Over
1001 SW 5th Ave., Suite 1000
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: (503) 223-2884 (Office)
Toll Free: (800) 234-7226
(503) 626-7174 (home)
Fax: (503) 228-2058
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM DISC OVER
Disc Over is a company committed to providing its customers
the best available products and services. Disc Over is an
authorized dealer for Arkenstone reading systems and Humanware Inc.
braille embossers. Disc Over can also provide a complete line of
PC clones, peripherals, document scanning, media conversion and
consulting services. Disc Over will work with you and/or your
employer to provide you the equipment necessary for a job or
education. In order to help you use and obtain equipment; Disc
Over works with skilled maintenance technicians and provides fund
raising opportunities. In the future Disc Over will continue to
increase its product offerings. Disc Over would like the
opportunity to offer competitive pricing for your equipment needs.
If you have any questions please write or call at the above
address.
Sincerely Yours
Robert S. Jaquiss Jr.
The Arkenstone Reader
:: with
:: TrueScan
:You can now acquire the most advanced reading product available,
for a fraction of the cost
of comparable systems. With the Arkenstone Reader, you will have:
- The ability to read almost any machine printed text: books,
magazines, manuals,
memos, your mail and many other documents
- The ability to read whatever you want, whenever you want to
read
- The ability to read the material you need to read for work,
home or school
The Arkenstone Reader is a tool that gives you equal access to
information in its predominate form: paper documents. The three
words that define the Reader are:
- Accuracy
- Flexibility
- Affordability
The Arkenstone Reader has the highest accuracy recognition
technology available today: the TrueScan scanner recognition card
from Calera Recognition Systems. TrueScan gives you the
capability to read the broadest range of real world documents (no
recognition product can read everything, be sure to try your
documents on the Reader). Arkenstone is committed to
increasing the already high performance of TrueScan through
additional software and documentation that customizes the Reader
for the visually impaired user.
Flexibility is a chief design goal for the Arkenstone Reader
and we feel that we have accomplished it. We give you the power to
choose your own personal computer, speech synthesizer, braille
display or printer, application software and image scanner. Disc
Over and Arkenstone will provide
some recommended configurations, but we want to ensure that you can
choose the system that matches your needs and budget. If you
already own a PC-AT or clone, we want to make the Reader work in
your existing environment. You can even attach an automatic
document feeder to the scanner to automatically scan in many pages.
Institutions can use the Reader to create Braille versions of
publications with a fifth or less of the effort formerly required
to enter them manually. Finally, the Arkenstone Reader offers you
capabilities that formerly cost three or more times as much.
Arkenstone believes that it has pushed the Reader to the point of
being affordable to the individual user. Rest assured that
Arkenstone will be working on ways to upgrade the Reader as
inexpensively as possible and drive the cost down further in the
coming years.
Best of all, the Arkenstone Reader is available now! What does the
Reader do? The Reader has an electronic computer board that plugs
into your PC-AT (or 286/386 AT clone or IBM PS/2 MCA system) and
gives it the ability to convert images scanned by an image scanner
into text information. This information is typically transferred
to your PC as a file: either in ASCII or in more than forty
available PC application formats, such as WordPerfect, Microsoft
Word or Lotus 1-2-3. Once it is on your computer, there are many
fine products designed to put the information out the way you like
it. Most users use a voice synthesizer product to speak the text
aloud. You can also use a Braille display or printer.
How much does the Reader cost you? Through special arrange-
ments with Calera and Hewlett Packard, Arkenstone through its
dealers is able to make the Reader available for considerably less
than the commercial price of the commercial products which make up
the Reader. Please see the pricelist for further details.
These prices are available only to individuals who are visually or
reading impaired or to institutions serving such individuals. The
HP ScanJet products being offered are brand new and purchased
directly from HP. The Reader has a one year warranty. Call Disc
Overto find out more about the new ability to read French, German
and other european languages. Arkenstone hopes that it has
convinced you that Arkenstone Reader has the potential to be a
major equalizer, giving you the power of independent access to
information. Arkenstone and Disc Over back up our belief that the
Reader is the best reading product available by giving you a thirty
day money back guarantee. This ensures that the Reader will work
on your documents, the ones you need to read. You can test an
Arkenstone very easily. Disc Over will scan up to ten unbound
pages of printed material for you, place the resulting data on a
disk and return the documents and disk to you for $10.00. If you
buy an Arkenstone reader system $10 will be deducted from the
purchase price. Contact Disc Over to arrange for a arkenstone
test.
Arkenstone was founded as a non-profit organization to make
reading technology as accessible as possible to the people who need
it.
Disc Over is pleased to offer the following items at the
prices indicated. Please note that these are subject to change
without notice.
Disc Over reccommends that for best results and greatest
accuracy that Panasonic scanners be considered when selecting a
scanner for a reading system. The use of a Panasonic scanner will
require you to have two slots available. One for the Arkenstone
card and the other for the scanner interface. If you use a Hewlett
Packard scanner you must use a daughtercard or have your own
Hewlett Packard interface.
Arkenstone model E card $2695.00 (PC/AT)
Arkenstone model E card $2695.00 (MCA/AT)
Arkenstone model S card $1495.00 (PC/AT)
Panasonic FX-RS307U scanner and PC/AT interface
$1495.00
Panasonic FX-AF520 document feeder $495.00
Hewlett Packard ScanJet $ 750.00
Hewlett Packard ADF $395.00
(Supplies of this scanner are limmited.)
Hewlett Packard ScanJet Plus $ 1095.00
Hewlett Packard ADF Plus $495.00
Daughtercard for Hewlett Packard or Cannon scanners
$250.00
Humanware Index Advanced braille embosser $3795.00,
$60.00 shipping (Total $3855.00).
Humanware Index Classic braille embosser $2995.00, $60
shipping (Total price $3055.00).
Duxbury braille translator program $495.00
Disc Over can provide PCs with a wide range of hard disks
drives, floppy disk drives, CD-ROM drives, RAM memory, processors,
cases and various monitors. Some examples of the configurations
available are:
Everex PC clone computer containing 80386 20MHZ,AMI bios,
1MB ram, 1.2MB 5.25" and 1.44 3.5" floppy drives, 107MB
Micro Science MSC7100, Monochrome card and monitor,
standard case and MSDOS 3.3 $2880.00. The Everex PC is
suplied with an on site service contract.
PC clone computer made with Mylex motherboard and
containing 80386 20MHZ, Phoenix bios, 1MB ram,
1.2MB 5.25" and 1.44 3.5" floppy drives, 107MB Micro
Science MSC7100, Monochrome card and monitor, standard
case and MSDOS 3.3 $2300.00. The PC carries a one year
warranty for all parts and labor.