Fwd: TECH Smith-Kettlewell Technical File on FTP

From: David Andrews (dandrews@visi.com)
Date: Thu Jun 16 2005 - 08:39:37 PDT


>For anyone unfamiliar with this publication, it was a great resource in
>its day, and still holds much valuable information. We aplaud Tom for
>making it available.

Dave

p.s. I believe Tim Cranmer had stuff in it, if memory serves.

>The entire contents of
>The Smith-Kettlewell Technical File
>are now available by FTP.
>
>The Smith-Kettlewell Technical File
>is A QUARTERLY TECHNICAL JOURNAL FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED READERS
>It contains, among other articles, a seven part series on soldering
>techniques,
>and an extensive series on basic electronics construction methods
>which culminates in building a series of practical test
>instruments. also included are numerous articles on specific
>integrated circuits and other solid state devices.
>
>To find this journal, go to:
>ftp.ski.org/pub/Rehab/Fowle
>
>This is case sensative.
>the "R" in Rehab and the "F" in Fowle are upper case
>You may login as anonymous or ftp and use your complete email address as
>password.
>
>Depending on your system, you may need to start at the
>ftp.ski.org
>directory and do a
>cd pub/Rehab/Fowle
>after logging in.
>
>Please Please read the
>readme.txt
>file as it contains important information about addresses, file
>names etc.
>
>The file
>contents.txt
>has the entire table of contents by issue
>
>The entire directory may be had by downloading
>sktftxt.zip
>and unpacking this file into a directory of choice on your
>computer.
>
>For questions or comments use ONLY the contact information in the
>readme.txt file and as listed below.
>Addresses in the individual issues have NOT been updated.
>
>The contents of these files remain copyright by Smith-Kettlewell
>Rehabilitation Engineering center or by others as stated in
>specific articles. They may be distributed freely so long as the
>original text remains unchanged and copyright notices remain
>intact.
>
>When these journals are converted to marked up HTML, they will
>be made available in a browsable form for easier searching.
>However the individual files are not long and can be easilly
>managed with a judicious use of find commands.
>
>For editorial issues contact
>Bill Gerrey
>Smith-Kettlewell rehabilitation engineering center
>2318 Fillmore St.
>San Francisco CA 94115
>415-345-2125
>bilge@ski.org
>
>for problems with the ftp site or files contact:
>Tom Fowle
>at the above address
>415-345-2123
>fowle@ski.org
>
>
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David Andrews and white cane Harry.



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