I had my first one in '61 and my Father threw it out. Strictly by accident.
It was to go back to Howe Press to be cleaned and worked on so it was boxed
up and he thought it was part of the christmas boxes we used to get from his
business associates in England so I got my present one in '74. I am feeling
quite old especially after sitting for almost an hour listening to the
Braille Note deciding when it is or was going to empty 160 e-mails which 159
of which were spam from the one.net account. I tell you the next thing this
machine needs is a faster processor.
And while that was going on I was paying bills and gumming up the woiks all
over the place it looks like because the credit card company got a bit upset
with me for charging my gas bill but I straightened it out so everything is
fine.
This brings up a question. Why on earth have none of these blindness
companies put a checkbook program in their windows ce machines? To me that
isright up there with word processing.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Garrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:38 PM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] The article:
Hey, Mary Ellen! I'm only 46, and definitely not a goat! I'm more like a
large cat with a guide dog! I'm curious about everything, and love being
that way. <big grin> You know, I had my first Perkins brailler in 1969,
and I still have one.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:41:40 -0800
Subject: [Braillenote] The article:
You know, I don't know what to make of this article.
Yes the reporter was an idiot there is no doubt about it and the article
was
as badly written as any nineteenth century novel about the blind I have
ever
seen but think about this. Not a single one of us on this list would have
ever heard of oneanother unless we belonged to ACB or NFB or went to
school
or a guide dog center or a rehab center were it not for this truly
marvelous
equipment.
You young people have no clue about what how us old goats got our
education
and what we did not have.
I wake up every morning and thank my Heavenly Father that I can now
download
a book into the Braille Note.
I can remember when the only thing we had to use as first graderswere Haul
Braillers and then one day Mr. Eugeen Stephens head of special Education
for
our schools came in and presented Miss Mergentheimer with one Brand New
Perkins Brailler. Miss Mergentheimer treated that machine like gold. There
was a part of the classroom where we were not allowed to go as she said
this
was the shelf for her "pretties." On that shelf was a spice wrack with
spices to develop sense of smell and various objects for conceptualization
and on the very end sat that perkins Braille Writer and if we got an A. on
that spelling test we got to do our next lesson on the Perkins.
My point is, yes 99% of the sighted world are idiots and have this archaic
idea that if they lost their sight they wouldn't be able to cope and some
wouldn't. So yes indeed these machines are most definitely miracles and
the
more sophistocated they become the more miraculous they will continue to
be.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
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From there, I went to a Braille n Speak, to a Type n Speak, to a Type
Lite, and now to a BrailleNote. Each piece of equipment was more fabulous
and wonderful than the last. So what's next in the industry? I'm ready,
are you?
I hope I never lose my appreciation for the different pieces of equipment
as they come along for they are what makes this world a little more easy
to get along in and work in. The younger generation cannot fully
understand where we are coming from being as they have had these things
from early childhood, unlike us. Though, in the future, they will be able
to say the same thing to the kids of the future.
Diane Garrett/Leader Daisy
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