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From: Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Braille access to iPaq! (fwd)
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:09:42 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109082108560.27801-100000@abeel.students.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109081501530.31268-100000@xanadu.home>

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
 > I have Braille access to my iPaq! Just thought I'd announce my success,
 > because I find it cool!
question:
1. what's an Ipaq
2. what are it's features?
3. what would this setup cost totally


 > We (Nicolas Pitre and myself) have successfully ported BRLTTY to the iPaq
 > and tested the setup by interfacing with a BrailleLite 18 through the
 > serial port.
 > 
 > BRLTTY is a program that allows access to the Linux text-mode console
 > using various brands of Braille displays.
 > 
 > The BrailleLite is a small electronic Braille notetaker device which can
 > act as a small refreshable Braille display. It also has keys so I can not
 > only read but also type.
 > 
 > So there's just the iPaq and the BrailleLite device (with a horrible
 > cable in between) and that's all I need to fully use the console on
 > the iPaq (in text-mode). A pretty powerful setup, yet very small.
 > 
 > At the Ottawa Linux Symposium in July, using a network card in my iPaq
 > and borrowing the internet connection they supplied, I was actually able
 > to logon to the net and go read my E-mail, using ssh, pine and lynx!
 > 
 > It should be possible to duplicate this setup with other Braille display
 > models or other PDAs.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Stéphane Doyon
 > <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
 > http://pages.infinit.net/sdoyon/
 > 
 > 
 > 
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