Hi Jim,
I'm beginning to feel the way you do about sense products. I got my
syncbraille repaired in march and the very same key now has the very same
problem and it's only july.
I can't aford to get it fixed, so guess I'll just use it till the whole
thing falls apart.
At least my vs still works. If I could aford a Braillenote apex from Hw I'd
buy one tomorrow.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Aldrich" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [GWN] Behind the times?
Hi Terri,
I hear you! I too hope we will see improvements in the sense Products and
I am afraid more and more of us are going to need to bring these little
things out before changes come to place and of course another company is
involved other than GW Micro. I don't feel you have been unreasonable!
For now, I too will do without my VS, my $350
netbook works fine and it will do for now! Even my Enabling embossor is
out of date when it comes to interfacing, so I'm out of luck when it
comes to brailling! The braille displays are making better advances so I
think the future of braille will be in mass produced braille displays
which can plug in without drivers and work bluetooth with various devices,
maybe our sense products at some point way down the road. Perhaps I'll
need to be content to get out of my embossor what I can since it is 13
years old! Oh well! So goes life!
Thanks for writing as usual and keep up the good fight! I'll do my best!
I still like sense products better than Humanware products and I too have
faulty braille displays on all of my Humanware notetakers and they no
longer support them so what to do? More stuff for the junk heep I guess!
Take care and thanks for writing!
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [GWN] Behind the times?
Hi, Jim,
I have Comcast cable for my TV, internet and home phone. Neither of my
notetakers will work with it, but for different reasons. On my desktop
PC, I have a wired modem/wireless router combo. I have a little usb
device which I can plug into a PC in my living room to get a wireless
connection. My PC in my living room doesn't work anymore.
I think it's a shame my notetakers won't work, but I'm content with using
a PC for the internet. I suppose it's because I never was able to use my
notetakers with cable. I'd probably be frustrated, too, if I had been
able to use the BSP with the internet and then the capability was taken
away.
The word processor means more to me than using the internet. I know that
I'm frustrated because I can't search for hard returns and replace them
with spaces. Nor can I set up tabs. The tabs don't bother me as much as
the hard returns do. I al wish there was the ability to format
paragraphs so when you translate from print to braille and vice versa the
paragraphs would have the correct format. Still, I was very happy the
word processor was able to open and read the updated manual for the b32 I
downloaded from the GW Micro web site. If it hadn't been able to read
the file, I would have been out of luck because I don't have any form of
Word on my PC. I've never liked Word. I prefer doing most of my editing
using my BSP. I hope HIMS will add more capabilities to its word
processor for the next release. I don't like having to use my other
notetaker because its display has weak dots in many of the cells.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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