Hi Susie
That's a wonderful description. Yes, it made perfect sense and answered
what I was wondering about file transfers and how it's done. BTW, we
have Windows XP and lots of USB ports, so that's good.
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Jean
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From: "Susan Stageberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:58 PM
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Okay, Jean, here goes:
The BrailleNote has two slots that can accommodate external storage
devices. In the back of the unit is a slot that can take a "compact
flash" memory card. These cards are a couple inches square and can hold
an astounding amount of data. If you think of a floppy disk as holing
about 1-1/2 MB, then you can imagine how much stuff one could put on a
compact flash card that holds, say 512 MB.
So how do you get the stuff from your PC to the compact flash card? With
a compact flash card reader/writer. This little gizmo plugs right into
the USB port on your PC, just like a digital camera or a USB powered
printer or scanner or whatever--plug and play, especially if you are
running Windows XP, but my card reader/writer was also plug and play
with Windows Millennium Edition and Windows 2000. You put the compact
flash card into the slot on the reader/writer, and behold, when you go
into Windows Explorer or My Computer, there is a new drive; mine calls
it "Removable storage Drive E." You can then move files around on the PC
using all the usual file management commands.
The PCMCIA slot is on the side of the BrailleNote. Older laptops have
such a slot too. You can buy an adapter into which you plug your compact
flash card, with all that stuff on it, then insert the "loaded" adapter
into the PCMCIA slot on your BrailleNote. So you could have two compact
flash cards available as storage for your BrailleNote, one on the side
and one in the back.
Does that make sense? If not, yell.
Susie
Susie Stageberg
Project ASSIST with Windows
Iowa Department for the Blind
(515) 281-1351
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Hi Bruce
Well, confused, I'm getting there. Smile.
I know card readers aren't very expensive, but how do they connect to a
PC? Is it just a USB cable like plugging in a digital camera?
You said The BN has a CF slot, as well as a PCMCIA slot, that will
accomodate a CF adapter.
Um, what's a CF adapter, and what are the slots you refer to on the BN?
I don't know the jargon of those acronyms. What are they used for?
Jean
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From: "Bruce Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:27 PM
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Jean:
There are several ways to transfer files. The BN comes with MS
Activesync, & serial cable. The cable is necessary if you want to
utilize the Braille Display option in your screenreader. It is also
necessary to use activesync, which will allow for file transfer. An
easier method, at least I think so, is to save files on a Compact
Flash Card, & use a card reader to read them on your PC. The BN has a
CF slot, as well as a PCMCIA slot, that will accomodate a CF adapter.
Confused yet? Your not alone, I am sure.
Bruce
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From: "Jean Menzies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:03 PM
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Hello Bruce
Thanks. So, how are files transferred to the PC? You all are
talking about wireless connections, etc. Our family PC isn't set up
with wireless, so could it also be done with a USB connection?
I really like the the ability to save to multiple formats within BN.
Or at least it sounds good. Smile.
Thanks again for your vote of confidence in terms of what I'm looking
for.
Jean
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From: "Bruce Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 11:19 AM
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Jean:
Braille files can be exported to Word, RTF, word perfect, or TXT
files, & my experiencxe has been that little, or no, corrections
have to be made to formatting them when I look at them on my PC.
Having the help available, from within an application, also is
superb.
Welcome to the list, you should learn a great deal here.
HTH:
Bruce
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From: "Jean Menzies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:26 PM
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Well, hello, Bob and Maxy-wax
Thanks for sharing your positive experiences. Although our CNIB
library doesn't have a lot of e-braille yet, their collection is
growing and I think they hav around 1400 titles now. I want to use
the BN to read books as well.
I also want to use it to write long documents that can easily be
transferred into Word for final formatting. I can write braille
much faster, and with contractions, the initial text input will be
faster than traditional typing.
Again, thanks for sharing, and hello to you both.
Jean and Stetson
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