[bcab] Re: Going free...

How could anyone seriously be an advocate for them? The only points they
had in their favour were that they were much cheaper than the Perkins and
rather smaller. However, this was far outweighed by their extreme
unreliability. I think they were only used seriously for about a year at my
school. One of the many devices for blind and partially sighted people
whose time has long gone.

Having said all that, it would be fun to use one again just to see if my
memories are accurate.

Iain
Iain Lackie, IS Testing Centre,
01738 895007 int. (33) (770) 5507
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Ian,

I can also remember them well from Newcastle.  Lillian Smith was always an
advocate for them.

Norman.
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 From: Ian Macrae
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 Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:06 PM
 Subject: [bcab] Re: Going free...

 A blast from the past indeed.  I remember my one at Benwell and it's dot
 five pin got stuck in the up position.  This meant not only that every
 embossed letter had dot five in it regardless, but that shadow dot fives
 would appear in the spaces because when you pressed a given key, the
 corresponding dot in every cell came up.  Made my Braille even less
 comprehensible than usual.

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 It must be about forty years since I have seen one of these. Does anyone
 still use them? I seem to recall they were rather unreliable.

 Iain
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