New equipment

[Dick]

I just want to let everyone know, I am going to be able to see your posts, and actually read them, without guessing. I alsohope to begin making text that says what I am thinking, not what my fingers type, in spite of my intentions.
I am testing out my new equipment, and you are the first! I don't know much about it yet, but will be lurking for some time before I get used to it. Then I won't have to put two manififiers in series to read the date, AND MM on the coins! If all goes well, I will be able to read the posts, and answer them, with some degree of accuracy. I will be using a "point, and say" type system, and until it learns my speech, ( the decent ones), patterns, I am not sure what the text will say! Thank you all for making this possible!
Dick

[Bob P]

I've always though you did real well in spite of the problems Dick. I hope your new equipment doesn't cuss as much as you do Good luck learning it, and I hope the help it gives you is substantial.

[Dick]

Bob, It is so new, and different, that I have gotten lost, just trying to get on line! Nothing looks the same. The system is a dell, and has everything on it. It talks to me, reads the text, and says things that I haven't said! So the "cuss words" maty increase. Either spoken, or typed, (maybe both!) It is goimg to take a while to learn to use everything. The keyboard is larger than normal, and has an extra row of buttons, just for the "zoom-text" application. I was listening to the guty who installed everything, and was speaking to the computer, so it couild learn my speech partterns, etc, and I asked the installer a question. The computer told me to shut up, and listen! I got a new printer, ("Brother", a new flatbed scanner, "Canon", and the "point and speak" application. Different name, but same manufacturer. The monitoers are 19". BTW, if you see a tape measure floating around, would you send it back? I havent'finished using it, yet!
Dick

[Bob P]

Will do Dick. Being a home builder, I do see tape measures floating around occasionally
Anyway, it sounds like a great set-up you've got there. Let us know as you go, how much it is helping you out...OK?

[Dick]

Bob, it is a completely new thing, and it will take time to get it figured out, but I'll get it. These systems are designed especially for people with handicaps of one or another class, maybe more. It is pretty powerful. I will be keeping up with everything, on the old unit(s), just to see everyone every day! Thanks for all your help!
Dick

[eagames]

Dick,

I'm sure you will get it working.

That Zoom Text has so many features it will take a while to figure out how to make use of everything.

How is it so far?

[KurtS]

Dick,
I was impressed how your previous setup worked, so I'm sure your new system will learn "obey" in short order.

[Dick]

guys, thanks forthe support. Kurt, I forgot to tell you that I am a wizard along with being a mechanic, (screw-driver, pliars and baling wire) It may look like a disaster area, but it really works. I hope I get "control of the new gear"! It is harder with the new KB, because it is bigger, and now I have to hunt for the letters. I'll get it. I'm just that stubborn!

While I am thinking about it, DON'T put coins that are wet with mineral oil, into round tubes, to soak, (I guess), and then seal the tube with scotch tape. It will make it near impossible to open! I have ten tubes of wheats, that someone did exactly that. I had to use two pair of pliars to get the top off! I was begining to think it may be necessary to break the tubes. Even after getting the caps off, the coins are all stuck together, and won't budge! I have them soaking in grease remover, and hopefully they will come out. This is the first I have ever seen of this. All are wheats, some "P", some "D", and couple rolls os "S". Two proof cents: 1992-S, and a 2003-S came with the 30-some-odd rolls! Wish me luck!
BTW, this is on the new "rig". I am lucky, I have a spare monitor, along side of the one I am using. Just in case
Dick

[Dick]

I managed to get three rolls, Tubes open. The rest are still locked in tight. Even after cutting the ends off with a tubing cutter, the coins are still frozen. Don't try heating the water with grease reover, because the plastic tubes only shrinks! I finally cut the distorted end off, and stood the tubes on end, and left them in the sun, to warm the oil, and maybe drip out. the only other alternative is to cut the tubes length-wise, and hope I don't cut any coins in the process. The few, a half dozen at best, are all MS-UNC. No "BU", the tubes are black! Some one had no idea as to what they were doing. They should have asked questions.
Kurt, this should interest you: One of the rolls, 1968-D, OBW, Brandt?, INC is from Sunnyvale, CA.
The rest shotgun rolls. Brandt, INC., Watertown, WIS. USA. It also says on the same roll New York State Bridge Authority. 1963-D. Most of the rolls are '62-P,"D", '63-P, D, one '68-S, another '54-S. The rolls are not real tight. Could be authentic, uncirculated rolls. Maybe "Lady-Luck", will point the finger at me, too. In Bob's case, it was the index finger.
Dick

[OCD]

Dick,
Here's something I found on the Lincoln Cent Resource forum posted by Billy Crawford: "I freeze them. Then take out and tap lightly. The tube will make a long crack, then peel away." Don't know if it will work with the oil, just thought I'd post it.
Jeremy

[Dick]

OCD, If I had seen your post a couple hour or so sooner, I would have tried it, (ans could have let tyou know how the treatment works with oil)! I finally got then all out, but there were a lot with damage, mostly rim. Some have a scrape on one face, or the other, but when one does what has to be done, stuff occurs. These tubes were so close to the coin diameter, that there was no room for air to get in. I heated them in boiling water, and nothing. I ended up grinding the plastic tube away, and left just enough of the "body" intact, to get a good grip with the channel-locks, and squeezed the side. The areas where they had been ground, broke free, and ai was able to DRIVE the coins out with a bit of doweling. Motto: "If you are going to soak coins, put them in a container that you can reach into and get a coin, or coins out, WITH YOUR HAND! I said a "couple hours". It was over 6 hours! The damage is done, and after The oil is gone, I can see if there are any survivors!
BTW, that freezing technique works on frozed HDD's, too.
Dick