Braille Assistant notetaker

Braille Assistant notetaker

[Jared]

I heard something about this on this list a long time ago, and never again.
If anyone uses the Braille Assistant or knows about how well it works from
personal experience please email me privately. I'm looking into it, but want
more then advertising. My email is
jared-stofflett@twmi.rr.com

Re: Braille Assistant notetaker

[Liz Hare]

Hi, Jared,

I am using the Elba.

I like it a lot, but there are some limitations.  You don't have access to 
the whole linux system so you can't do stuff like compile your own 
software.  If it were a personal unit and not one for my job that would 
upset me.  But it has all the great features of linux like stability and in 
this respect it's better than any notetaker I've played with.  The braille 
is beautiful.  The machine is a bit big and klunky, but I like it anyway.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Please use this address:

doggene@earthlink.net

Liz

At 09:08 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I heard something about this on this list a long time ago, and never again.
>If anyone uses the Braille Assistant or knows about how well it works from
>personal experience please email me privately. I'm looking into it, but want
>more then advertising. My email is
>jared-stofflett@twmi.rr.com
>
>
>
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Re: Braille Assistant notetaker

[David Poehlman]

I had heard that there is a code they can give you to unlock the full power
of the system.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Hare" <eh51@cornell.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Braille Assistant notetaker



Hi, Jared,

I am using the Elba.

I like it a lot, but there are some limitations.  You don't have access to
the whole linux system so you can't do stuff like compile your own
software.  If it were a personal unit and not one for my job that would
upset me.  But it has all the great features of linux like stability and in
this respect it's better than any notetaker I've played with.  The braille
is beautiful.  The machine is a bit big and klunky, but I like it anyway.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Please use this address:

doggene@earthlink.net

Liz

At 09:08 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I heard something about this on this list a long time ago, and never again.
>If anyone uses the Braille Assistant or knows about how well it works from
>personal experience please email me privately. I'm looking into it, but
want
>more then advertising. My email is
>jared-stofflett@twmi.rr.com
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup


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Re: Braille Assistant notetaker

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

There are two Elba users on this list who know what they are doing.
No, Liz, you have incorrect info.  You can get a compiler for the
Elba, you just have to ask.  You can get the root password too, you
just have to ask.  Um, hate to say this, my friend, but I think there
is still, on the part of some people, a reluctance to believe that a
woman actually could know what to do with a compiler and a root
password for the Elba.  Just be charming and kill him with kindness
and ask sweetly for what you want.  

I don't have an Elba, wish I did, but am getting a
BN for my job.  However, I did some considerable research on the Elba,
as well as talking to folks who use it.  If I weren't having this BN
bought for me so that I could train others on it, I'd buy an Elba,
hands down!  

Ann P.

-- 
			Ann K. Parsons  
email:  akp@eznet.net 			ICQ Number:  33006854
WEB SITE:  http://home.eznet.net/~akp
"All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost."  JRRT

Re: Braille Assistant notetaker

[Keith Watson]

Yep there sure is. Want it?

On 07:39 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
> I had heard that there is a code they can give you to unlock the full power
> of the system.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Liz Hare" <eh51@cornell.edu>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Braille Assistant notetaker
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, Jared,
> 
> I am using the Elba.
> 
> I like it a lot, but there are some limitations.  You don't have access to
> the whole linux system so you can't do stuff like compile your own
> software.  If it were a personal unit and not one for my job that would
> upset me.  But it has all the great features of linux like stability and in
> this respect it's better than any notetaker I've played with.  The braille
> is beautiful.  The machine is a bit big and klunky, but I like it anyway.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions.  Please use this address:
> 
> doggene@earthlink.net
> 
> Liz
> 
> At 09:08 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I heard something about this on this list a long time ago, and never again.
> >If anyone uses the Braille Assistant or knows about how well it works from
> >personal experience please email me privately. I'm looking into it, but
> want
> >more then advertising. My email is
> >jared-stofflett@twmi.rr.com
> >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
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-- 
Keith Watson
kwatson@smed.yi.org

Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant
but those with illusions of knowledge.    - B. Alan Wallace

Re: Braille Assistant notetaker

[David Poehlman]

I have no use for it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Watson" <Kwatson@smed.yi.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Braille Assistant notetaker


Yep there sure is. Want it?

On 07:39 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
> I had heard that there is a code they can give you to unlock the full
power
> of the system.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Liz Hare" <eh51@cornell.edu>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Braille Assistant notetaker
>
>
>
> Hi, Jared,
>
> I am using the Elba.
>
> I like it a lot, but there are some limitations.  You don't have access to
> the whole linux system so you can't do stuff like compile your own
> software.  If it were a personal unit and not one for my job that would
> upset me.  But it has all the great features of linux like stability and
in
> this respect it's better than any notetaker I've played with.  The braille
> is beautiful.  The machine is a bit big and klunky, but I like it anyway.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.  Please use this address:
>
> doggene@earthlink.net
>
> Liz
>
> At 09:08 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I heard something about this on this list a long time ago, and never
again.
> >If anyone uses the Braille Assistant or knows about how well it works
from
> >personal experience please email me privately. I'm looking into it, but
> want
> >more then advertising. My email is
> >jared-stofflett@twmi.rr.com
> >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
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-- 
Keith Watson
kwatson@smed.yi.org

Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant
but those with illusions of knowledge.    - B. Alan Wallace

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RE: Braille Assistant notetaker

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

According to David Pellisher, (sp) the guy at Sighted Electronics,
Elba is working with an outfit in Quebec, the same one that developed
the Victor Reader.  According to the info I have, they will be getting
the same GPS stuff as will the Packmate.  But apparently, this Quebec
outfit has to do FS's work first, and then they can deal with
Papenmeyer.  Seems like an arsyversy way to operate since FS is so big
and their Packmate, wannabe computer, is so clumsy and idiotic, but
there 'tis.

I feel the same way.  If the Elba had GPS now, there'd be no contest,
none!  The BN has FTP, and Telnet, not this Activesync that the BN is
using.  The Elba has USB and Wireless support too.    Ah, well, PDI
says they're workin' on it.  

Ann P.

-- 
			Ann K. Parsons  
email:  akp@eznet.net 			ICQ Number:  33006854
WEB SITE:  http://home.eznet.net/~akp
"All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost."  JRRT

RE: Braille Assistant notetaker

[Jared]

Is there going to be a GPS for the note taker? I would probably get one over
a braille note if I could get a GPS, but until there is one its braille note
all the way.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Ann Parsons
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:05 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Braille Assistant notetaker


Hi all,

There are two Elba users on this list who know what they are doing.
No, Liz, you have incorrect info.  You can get a compiler for the
Elba, you just have to ask.  You can get the root password too, you
just have to ask.  Um, hate to say this, my friend, but I think there
is still, on the part of some people, a reluctance to believe that a
woman actually could know what to do with a compiler and a root
password for the Elba.  Just be charming and kill him with kindness
and ask sweetly for what you want.

I don't have an Elba, wish I did, but am getting a
BN for my job.  However, I did some considerable research on the Elba,
as well as talking to folks who use it.  If I weren't having this BN
bought for me so that I could train others on it, I'd buy an Elba,
hands down!

Ann P.

--
			Ann K. Parsons
email:  akp@eznet.net 			ICQ Number:  33006854
WEB SITE:  http://home.eznet.net/~akp
"All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost."
JRRT


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