Hi Andy and Others; I sure agree with you! I have been working for 20 years. I started out with just a computer with Jaws and no e-mail. later I learned e-mail and got a braille display. I moved on to a better computer and all the time I just had a braille writer. Finally, about 2 years ago I finally got my first note taker and embosser. To me, my BT is like living in peridise. I no longer have to depend on braille notes here and there and items I have written in jumbo print. I am slowly putting everything at my finger tips.
Terry Powers Thanks again HW! -----Original Message----- From: Baracco, Andrew W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:55 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] A Call for Better Keyword Support and other things Okay, I'm back again with my philosophical rant, hopefully for the last time. I have read here that there are many who use the BN as their only computing device. Well, I love my BN dearly, but, if God himself said that I could have only one computing device, it would not be the BN. I seriously doubt that if the same choice were posed to a sighted person, that they would choose a Blackberry or Palm Pilot over a PC. PDA's were never meant to be a replacement for PC's. Sighted people use their PDA's in conjunction with PC's. I guess that if your needs were limited and narrowly directed, a PDA could do everything that you would need to do. However, from what I read on this list, many people want their computing device to do everything except, perhaps, to wipe their nose. This will never happen with the BN, or any PDA, and if it does, such a device will be prohibitively expensive. If you need real computer power, price points today have shifted. You can buy a servicable laptop with screen reader of your choice, and a 40 cell Braille display for $1000 less than an MPOWER 32 or a Packmate 40. This would give you a solution that could do everything you would ever need, except, that it still wouldn't wipe your nose, but, we can't have everything. I do want the BN to be everything that it can be, but, sometimes the continuous flow of hundreds of whining and nattering messages drives me crazy. Andy ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
