I haven't used a HandyTech display, but my understanding is that they can transfer files to a host computer by emulating a keyboard and writing the file into whatever text editor or word processor you're using.
This should work well on the Mac. I don't know how transfers in the other direction (from host computer to braille display) are handled, though, if you don't have their Microsoft Windows-only file transfer tool. On 4/29/18, 13:42, "Donna Goodin" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: thanks, Alia. This is good info to have. Cheers, Donna > On Apr 29, 2018, at 12:38 PM, alia robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m not jason, but here is my two cents. you do have to use a sd card to transfer, but I had to use a usb stick for vu so that’s no problem to me. no I cannot use the file transfer program, but I have no problem converting documents to brf and putting them on the card. It does remember your last reading position, yes. > > On Apr 29, 2018, at 1:32 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jason, > > I demoed a HandyTech display a long time ago--like around 2007--and strongly disliked the file transfer protocol. The display had to be connected to the computer, and you used some program under Windows Utilities I think, like maybe VTerm? It was slow and annoying. How does one currently move files back and forth between the displays you mention and a Mac or PC? > > The other thing I remember is that you couldn't open a file to the place you were when you last closed it. Every time you opened a file, you were placed at the beginning. Is that still the case? > Cheers, > Donna > >> On Apr 29, 2018, at 12:21 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> E.T. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> How about 14? And maybe even a 12? I think there is a 12. Yes anything >>> less than 40 is out, even 32. >> >> >> It's the same for me, as I read and edit text extensively. 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