[Braillenote] FW: new nls machines

[Powers, Terry \(NIH/OD/DEAS\) [E]]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:46 AM
To: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
Subject: RE: new nls machines

It's not a kind of card that is compatible with any other machine at
this
moment.  It is a new design.  But I'm pretty sure that as the NLS
players
and cartridges go into production, adapters, cables and software
revisions
will become available to make these devices work together.  Ask me the
question again in about 18 or 24 months from now.  Books will become
downloadable at about that time, but the current BrailleNote software
will
not be able to play the files we are planning to produce.  The average
11-hour book will be about 128 megabytes long.  Because they contain
audio
they are more than a hundred times as big as the comparable Braille
file.
Don't worry too much about this; the pieces are slowly coming together.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: new nls machines
> 
> 
> Hi Lloyd;
> Do you know what kind of card NLS will be putting their books on with
> this new system.  Will they work on the Braille Note.  If not, will
they
> be downloadable from the site?
> 
> Terry
> 
> 
> Theresa L. Powers (Terry)
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> Tobacco Control Research Branch
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