Dear customers:

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from us, please do not hesitate to let us know, and you will be
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Hi everyone! It's September, and I'm very late again this month.
We hope you are all having a great Summer!

If you had a birthday in August, or if you have a birthday in
September, you share it with Yours Truly. If you have a birthday
any time this summer, We want to wish you a very Happy Birthday!
And many more! you all get one year younger! <grin>

Because there are not enough of us to go around, this news letter
may be published bi-monthly.

Important news

New Dealer

Ferguson Enterprises is very pleased to announce that we have a
dealer in the United Kingdom. We want to introduce to you, Steve
Nutt, from Computer Room Services. We want to welcome you, Steve!
Those of you in the UK can now purchase our products from Steve
Nutt.

Vacation

Ferguson Enterprises will be closed the week of Christmas, so
please do your Christmas shopping early!

We are very proud to announce, that Ferguson Enterprises is
celebrating it's 20th year in business! We look forward to
providing you quality products and service for the next 100
years! <smile>

We have gift certificates which you may purchase from us for your
friends or relatives to spend at our store. Each gift certificate
costs $1.00, and the amount of the gift certificate plus the
$1.00 will be charged to your credit card and shipped as
instructed at the time of ordering. You can purchase gift
certificates  in the amounts of $25.00, $50.00, $75.00, $100.00,
or higher. These gift certificates are available any time of the
year.

We now have ONLY 2 sections in this news letter. One is called
News, Bits, And Pieces. This
section contains new information about screen reader updates, and
other new items of interest. The 2ND section is called
Catalog updates. This section will include all the new items
listed, changes in both the catalog and the CD list, and this
section will list anything discontinued.

ALL PRODUCTS MENTIONED HERE IN THIS DOCUMENT ARE THE PROPERTIES
OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPANIES.

If there is something you would like us to feature in any of
these colums, please email us with your suggestions. Please 
make the subject suggestions in the subject header of your
message, and please keep the subject confined to the subject of
the message.

You will also find our monthly special in this news letter, as
well. Since we put the wrong special on our web site, we are
continuing the current special, until October 31, 1998.

The catalog zipped file for the year of 1998 will be called
fergcat.zip. 

You may now come and visit us at our Web Site! which Pierre
Berube so kindly designed for us called the Bright Side, at:
http://www.fergusonenterprises.com with many
new and exciting links to other great web sites! If there is
a web site you freequent and you would like us to link to it,
please let us know!

When you do notice that a url has been changed, and can not be
accessed from our web site, please send us an email and we'll
forward it on to our web master. It is impossible to keep up with
the ever-changing pace of the internet. As companies move, and
people change providers, many times, url's change as well. Pierre
is doing an excellent job of keeping it updated. Your patience is
much appreciated.

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News, Bits, and Pieces

This section contains new bits of information about screen
readers, or other important information of interest to you all.

September, 1998

We are freequently asked, where one can find a calendar program
for Windows, which is accessible with speech. So far, we have not
found one yet.

We would appreciate knowing if any of you have tried any of the
current calendar programs on the market.

We're waiting for the current version of Bible Library, which has
14 Bibles and runs in Windows only. We hope to receive this
before this goes out to you. It will retail for $79.95

The older version of Bible Library, version 2.1 does work in DOS
and Windows 95, and is accessible in Windows. There are some
files for the DOS version missing, and we'll have them available
soon, for those who own that version.


Hold on! Don't leave yet! There's more!

We have some new games in stock! See the next section below for
details.

Thanks to one of our customers, we do have the TextBridge Pro
manual in ASCII text for any of you who do not want the challenge
of converting it from pdf format to ASCII.

We will have some new tutorials very soon!

June, 1998

We are very excited about the release of Window-Eyes 2.1! It is
great!

You will find that TextBridge Pro works very well with Window-Eyes and ASAW. It should work with other Windows screen readers
as well.

American Heritage 98 does work with speech. We will have it in
our store next week!

Bible Library for Windows 95 works beautifully with ASAW and
should work with any other Windows screen Reader, as well.

We are constantly trying to keep our demo's of screen readers
updated on our web site! You will find the most current demo's of
ASAP, ASAW, Vocal-Eyes, and Window-Eyes, available on our web
site.

For those of you who are looking for the old Infocom manuals, and
hints files, we have them, thanks to one of our customers. You
can request them in an email to us, and will gladly send them to
you as an atachment.

We are excited about the up-coming release of ASAW for Windows 98
and Windows NT. We do not have a release date yet.

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Catalog updates

This section will include all the new items listed, changes in
both the catalog and the CD list, and this section will list
anything discontinued.

Please read discriptions carefully.

Changes in the catalog.txt file:
New Games

COPS: Can you catch the burglars before they leave town?
Fight urban traffic, dogs running across the road, and many other
irritations, wile the crooks try to get out of
the county of middlesex. 1 lbs.
SW-33013 $30.00

HAZE MAZE: Listen closely can you hear the sound of your
footsteps change when the path goes from stone to wood? Oh! What
is that? Hear the echo off to the left, where the passage splits.
Oh! Wow, did you hear the sound of the footsteps loose their echo
when a wall appeared ahead? Cool! The only way to get a better
feel for a maze is to walk it yourself. 1 lbs.
SW-33014 $30.00

MIND PUZZLES: This new and exciting collection of word games is
something we have all been waiting for. P. BLANK. S. WHAT IS YOUR
GUESS? C. CORRECT! THE WORD IS P C S. Personal Computer Systems
is re-introducing some oldies but goodies for the new age! 
Hangman, Scrambled word, Guess the Word, and follow the leader
have not been played until you have played our's. Do you think
playing games which teach spelling and develop your memory are
boring?  Well get MIND PUZZLES and see if you can survive a game
of Hangman!  P C S has put together a suite of games designed to
make playing easier and more fun then ever!  These games will be
a challenge for all ages.  See if your memory is as sharp as you
think it is by playing a game of Follow the leader. Some things
are timeless, these oldies were around at the turn of the
twentieth century played by children with a stick scratching out
letters in the dirt.  We are proud to present these favorites, in
jazzed up computer form, in time for the twenty first century. 1
LBS.
SW-33015 $30.00

Long discriptions:

COPS: An alarm goes off, and you know that somewhere in the
county criminals have struck.  Your duty is to find and catch
them. In this new game by P C S, you play the roll of a police
officer in a police car restricted to movement only on roads,
parks, and parking lots.  The objective is simple, all you have
to do is catch the suspects before they escape by crossing the
Middlesex county line.  This is usually a nice, quiet, suburban
place to live and work, but lately a criminal element has moved
in.  When the alarm goes off and the dispatcher gives you the
approximate location of the hooligans, it is time for you to
fight the traffic and use your memory of the street layout to cut
the thieves off and apprehend them.  The streets of Middlesex are
laid out in a way to help you know where you are, and how you
might travel in order to get to where the suspects are.  The
North/South streets are in alphabetical order named after states. 
With Alaska being farthest West.  The East/West streets are
sequentially numbered, with First Avenue furthest North.  There
are also many landmarks for you to become acquainted with, and a
subway system in the county that the gangsters can use.  So, make
sure you do not lose them in there. Just because you have a
siren, don't think you won't have cars, trucks, kids, or many
other obstacles getting in the way.  Using the siren will help
you get through traffic quicker, but if the crooks hear you they
will move faster.  One other small matter, the bad guys are not
restricted to roads like you.  Well it is all up to you now to
sweep the county clean of trash, so, go out there and
get them before they get away!  

HAZE MAZE: Hear your footsteps as you navigate through a maze. 
Listen closely can you hear the sound of your footsteps change
when the ground beneath you goes from stone to wood?  Oh! what is
that? Hear the echo off to the left, where the passage splits. 
Oh! wow, did you hear the sound of the footsteps become flat when
a wall appeared ahead.  Cool! The only way to get a better feel
for a maze is to walk it yourself. P C S takes you one step
farther in audio game experience.  As you walk through a maze we
made it sound as if you are really there. While you walk through
the maze, you will hear the sound of footsteps differ as the
ground beneath you changes.  You will also be able to hear the
sounds of echoing footsteps off to the sides when the area next
to you is free of obstructions.  When you hit a wall, the sound
of the type of wall being bumped will be heard. Just before you
walk into a wall, if you're listening closely, you will hear the
sound of your footsteps flatten out with no echo, warning of a
wall ahead.  A wind chime becomes slightly louder as you work
your way closer to the exit and complete the maze. The game uses
stereo sounds to indicate paths to the left or right.

New Electronic Devices

VOICE DIARY: Everything you will ever need! This unique little
device, is a full-featured organizer, with all the features that
any organizer would ever need. Records up to 30 minutes of
information in the memo pad. Has a Calendar, Clock, Calculator.
Comes complete with print and cassette instructions, and data
cable, so you can even download the information stored on the
Voice Diary to your computer, and downloaded updates. Must be
charged every day for best usage. Comes with leather case. 2 lbs.
ELD66011 $315.00

Voice Diary is a full-featured, palm-sized Personal Information
Manager (PIM) with 30 minutes of recordings in a sophisticated
database structure.
Daily Pad
To make a note to pick-up your laundry on Friday, browse the
Daily Pads using the 6 key, turning a virtual page with every key
stroke. Record in Friday's To-Do List: "Pick up the Laundry".

It is not ready on Friday and you need to come back on Monday ?
No problem: press MOVE, browse to Monday and press MOVE again.

Likewise you can change priorities in every list and duplicate
memos to appear on several lists.
Phonebook
To telephone just say your party's name to Voice Diary, put the
loudspeaker over the mouthpiece of the telephone and press one
key to dial.

Arrange your Phonebook listings with 127 voice recognizable
headings and multiple names and phone numbers for each name, as
well as addresses, driving instructions and any other information
you want to associate to a name. 

Diary
To schedule your visit to the Doctor on 4 PM coming Tuesday,
browse in Diary with the 6 key until you reach Tuesday and then
browse with the 8 key until you reach 4 PM. Record: "Visit to
Doctor Yaglom". Of course you can use a short cut to get to the
date and time directly. 

Alert yourself to leave home for that visit on 3:30 PM by setting
a reminder alarm for that time. And you can set as many alarm
reminders as you wish !
Another keystroke and you can turn any single appointment into a
repeating sequence, without it taking more space ! This is how
you can manage your daily routine, weekly meetings, monthly
get-together, birthdays and anniversaries. 
And much more...
Other features of the Voice Diary include: a talking
calendar-clock, a stopwatch with 10 lap-times memory, a
sophisticated timer, and a powerful talking calculator that
offers more functions, including memory, exponentiation, roots
and percentage.

Ingenious Keys Design and Innovative Voice User Interface (VUI)
Simplifies Operation
Voice Diary is as easy to use as a touch-tone phone. Each key is
shaped differently and every time you press a key, Voice Diary
tells you what you've done and prompts you for the next
keystroke.
Voice Recognition Technology provides immediate access to
Phonebook Entries. Meticulous human engineering lets you define
every control from the speed of the voice and the way time is
announced, to the number of rings in an alarm. These features
have made Voice Diary's VUI a world leader and trendsetter.

VOICE DIARY IS THE FIRST ELECTRONIC ORGANIZER WITH A COMPLETE
VOICE USER INTERFACE (VUI) FOR SIGHT-FREE OPERATION 

VOICE DIARY IS SIMPLE TO LEARN AND SIMPLE TO OPERATE

Full PC Communications Keeps You Updated and Safe
Upgrade your Voice Diary with new and improved capabilities, by
downloading new software versions, as they become available, from
our site on the World Wide Web through your PC. Our site also
features user tips, a chat room and news about all our utilities
and accessories.
The PC Communication feature also enables you to back-up your
data unto a PC disk.

More Features
* Voice Diary offers better Sound Quality, either through its
loudspeaker or through earphones.
* Voice Diary's recordings are fully digital. There are no moving
parts in Voice Diary.
* The memory of Voice Diary has Two Million Bytes of Memory (16
Million Bits !), and Voice Diary uses the most efficient
Compression Algorithem for more recording time.
* Voice Diary's memory is a Non Volatile Memory to protect your
data from any power fail.
* Voice Diary uses rechargeable NiMH friendly to the environment
batteries.
* Voice Diary has Automatic Turn-Off for Power Savings which can
be adjusted to user needs.
* Voice Diary alerts you when power is low and battery charging
is necessary, however it is highly recommended that you re-charge
the battery every night, whether it needs it or not.

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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!

Ferguson Enterprises is celebrating it's 20th year in business!

We want to share that celebration with you!

The following items are on sale through October 31, 1998

WINDOW-EYES: Version 2.1 Full-version only. Comes with an
excellent tape tutorial. 4 lbs.
SSW-10010 $575.00
 
The above items are on sale through October, 31, 1998.

To order any of the above items, please call or write.
 
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES
104 ANDERSON AVE.
MANCHESTER, SD 57353-5702
VOICE: 605-546-2366
FAX: 605-546-2212
Email: fergent@fergusonenterprises.com
Web Site: http://www.fergusonenterprises.com

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ERRORS AND CORRECTIONS: 

If you find any errors in any of the catalog files, please don't
hesitate to tell us.
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Office hours:

Ferguson Enterprises is open Monday through Thursday, from 9 AM
to 6 PM, Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM, on Saturdays, from 9 AM to 3
PM, Central Standard Time.

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our email address.

Your continued patience and understanding is greatly appreciated.
There is only 2 of us here, and We're working nights to keep up
with the endless email.

We hope you are all staying dry and cool this summer. Last, but
not least, you are all great! and made out of love! Remember it's
warm on the internet!

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We look forward to hearing from you! Thanks much!

Pat Ferguson, vp Marketing and sales