[blazie-support] Re: questons and comments on the BLT40
- From: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:09:45 -0700
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:59:41AM -0400, C. Pond wrote:
> 1. Are the final firmware revision and the one before this final one for the
> BLT40 available on any internet site, such as Freedom Scientific? I assume
> that they can be downloaded to install into the Braille Lite 40?
The final June 5, 2003 update is available for all classic notetakers
from freedomscientific.com. Once there, go to downloads, notetaker
update windisk and Nemeth tutorial. Towards the bottom of that page
are the links to download the last firmware update for the
notetakers. Note that only the English version of the final firmware
is available. They were still charging a hefty price for other
languages to update to the final revision when I checked 10 years ago
or so. If I recall right, Ron Miller quoted $175 for the Polish
upgrade back then. I don't know if there is somewhere where the
version prior to June 5, 2003 can be gotten from.
> 2. What were the differences between the final June 5 2003 revision, and the
> revision before that? Was the older revision more stable? (It almost could
> not help but be.)
Bug fixes as far as I know. The page I gave above claims that this
version will make your unit compatible with a new version of windisk,
but that new version of windisk never came out as far as I know. As
for stability between versions, I can't comment; it was so long ago.
> If they chose to, Freedom Scientific could issue one final update for the
> BLT40 and BLT18 which smooths features out like: eliminating append and
> insert, and just having the cursor write where it is placed; they could fix
> pesky bugs which were NOT Present in older revisions; freeze ups; the
> tendency to not be able to write at times if the cursor is at the final
> character in a file; unnecessary chrashes even though the hardware is
> essentially stable; and so forth.
>
> Something should be done about this.
>
They could if they chose to, but something tells me that if they
haven't chosen to do so for the last 11 years, they aren't going to
now. I personally think they kept things going for as long as the
contract with Dean Blazie required them to, and they dropped the
Blazie products like a hot potato as soon as the requirements imposed
on them by that contract ended. Something should be done about it, but
probably nothing will unless they're sued, maybe not even then.
Greg
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