I use both a laptop and a bn and both are invaluable for me in school. I
just got my braille note in Febrary and I wished I had tried to get one
sooner but I am glad I waited till I did. I researched a little bit the
note takers like the packmate braille note and braillesense and I really
liked the braille note. My laptop and bn serve different purposes and if I
hadn't had some help from the stat to get my braille note I still wouldn't
have one. Although I had to come up with teh difference because I wanted a
32 cell and the state would only get me an 18. It is not easy when you
can't afford equipment that will help you with work or school. For some
people if it is possible for them to have both and they like using a note
taker and pc that is good. But using a braille note or voice note I can see
only using that too if it serves all your needs. Personally for school I
think we should have both but then again I have had my laptop longer but I
like be able to use the braille when I am in class. Sorry for the long
post. The just is we should all be respectful of the computer or note taker
choices of the people on the list. What may work well for one person may
not for another. Some people might be able to do everything they need to
with just a bn or pc it really just depends on many things.
Malaina
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From: "Sammie Clay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Write Humanware" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:13 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] reference: recent comments
Hello List,
I'd like to thank all of you who responded to Bob Mates post. A special
thanks to those who understand that not all of us have or use computers.
For me, the price of a computer is not why I don't have one. I have owned
three, the first was from Mr Langford of the Texas Center For The
Physically Impaired, and it cost me only $50.00. I gave it and all the
others away to blind people who could use a computer with JAWS installed,
because I couldn't learn to use them. I am not able to remember all the
commands a computer require, nor have I ever been comfortable with the
keyboard. I've never been a typist, and have found it difficult to learn
to type after losing my vision at age 62. Braille, however was very easy
to learn and my BrailleNote (soon to be an MPower) serves me very well.
The Braille keyboard is as easy to operate as the Perkins Braillewriter
was, and the help menu moves me through operations without my fingers
losing there place on the keyboard. And, when I get stuck, there's always
Rhonda Clark, Seville Allen, and sometimes this list to learn from.
I think that most of us who don't use or own a computer, realize that
notetakers, regardless of how Sophisticated they are, will never replace
a personal computer. I believe what we would like is for our notetaker to
perform as advertised, and to have people respond to our questions without
telling us how much better off we'd be if we used a computer.
Ms. Cranston, I love it when you emerge from your rock with your words
of wisdom. Reading your messages to the list, I believe that you own both
a notetaker and a computer, so I'd like to thank you for responding to our
queries without being critical because we only use our BN, PK, or VN and
not a computer. Please come out from under your rock as often as you
wish.
Sammie Clay
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