[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: refreshable Braille display on eBay
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:23:36 -0400
Hi all,
The Navigator is a legacy machine that was designed to work in DOS, not
Windows. It may work in Win95, but it may not. If it is missing a
power supply, unless you knew the exact specs on it, you could ruin it
if you got a power supply of the wrong kind. Since the machines aren't
made any more, and since the likelihood of obtaining the correct power
supply is questionable, I'd not lay out any money for it.
This may be the same blessed machine that was talked about on
BlindTech. I said there, and I'll say again, unless you have the
correct drivers for your OS, all you'd be purchasing is a door stop.
You would have to have the right drivers, the right power supply and
all. The Drivers might be more difficult to obtain then even the power
supply. For you nontechies, a driver is a piece of software that
allows your peripheral to communicate with your computer. If the
driver isn't right, your computer is going to start shouting, "Eh?
What's that you said? Huh? Don't understand you at all. I don't speak
DOS or Win95."
What is probably going on is that somebody who used to have this
display has died. The sighted family has absolutely no idea what
they're trying to sell, but they know that Uncle Joe or Dad or Granddad
or Grandma payed $6,000.00 back in 1985, and surely it's worth
something. Well---Door Stop? Anchor? Telesensory Systems museum piece?
Unless you're one of the very few dynasaurs around here who's running
DOS, you'd be purchasing a chimera.
Ann P.
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