From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from c523224-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com([24.0.107.62]) (1547 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:smtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:56:58 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: (qmail 413 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2000 04:57:13 -0000 Message-ID: <20000311045713.412.qmail@c523224-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com> Subject: Re: braille input To: janina@afb.net (Janina Sajka) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:57:13 -0600 (CST) Cc: davros@ycardz.com (Buddy Brannan), speakup@braille.uwo.ca In-Reply-To: from "Janina Sajka" at Mar 10, 2000 09:36:44 PM From: Buddy Brannan X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Actually, I've been jazzed about PDA's for a while, but well you know how it is. ... Anyway, the more I think about it, and Kirk (Wood) and I and I have been talking a bit more. ... While jabbing with a stylus might be something we might try and implement on something that already exists--assuming we can work out a speech solution--just for ease and speed of use, doing control characters, extra characters, whatever, a braille keyboard (8-dot braille, I'm guessing) would probably be a better long-term solution. Thoughts? -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | Friday whistle, how did I make it? Email: davros@ycardz.com | If I had my way, I'd run out naked! Phone: (972) 889-8147 | Banging pub doors, hey! Let me in! Voice mail: (877) 791-5298 | Gimme my blue jeans again.