I too was impressed with the Versabraille when it came out but I think the
BNS really opened up the notetaker market with a competitive product for a
competitive price. I didn't like the classic units and finally bought a
BNS2000 which was very respectable! I then went to a Braille Note and on
it goes. I wasn't impressed with the Packmate and it came out as blindness
products were being phased out by TSI. I believe FS may still be repairing
those units but can't be certain of that!
I also worked or attempted to work for Social Security and am happy I got
out when I did.
Jim
At 09:46 AM 10/28/2004 , you wrote:
Hi folks!
Well I thought my router went out on me but alas the fone jack came out of
the connector socket so happily no service calls.
Anyway I used the original versa braille with the cassette tapes. You
could onlyuse maxell and tdk extremely high quality milar tapes in those
things and they were open enoughthat dog hair used to get inside of them.
They were amazing for their timehowever quite heavy and bulkey and did not
have nearly the flexability of the machines of today.
I only got to see the later models which had the hard drives in them but I
am certainly glad those days were over. As a matter of fact the versa
Braille was a contributing cause for me to quit my job at the Social
Security administration. They were trying to document how I couldn't do my
job because I depended too much on sighted help. Anyway I kept telling
them to spend 20 bucks for a cable to interface the versa braille with
their computer system and they refused so I told them since they were
making it impossible for me to do my job they could find another boy to
whip and left.
Of course they got extremely nasty about the whole matter and the manager
of the office didn't even show up for work the day I left to say good-bye.
So I have not happy memmories of the versa braille.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
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