[optacon-l] Re: Pins in the Tactile Array
- From: dacoleman@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:24:02 -0600
> I agree with you on the two Optacons. I think the pins are better
> protected
> from dust on the R1D.
>
> Effie
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> From: "Ninette Legates" <ninette.legates@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:32 PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Pins in the Tactile Array
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>> Regarding the tactile array, I much prefer the one on the R1D. I also
>> consider the design of the R1D better than the Optacon 2.--Ninette
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 4:59 PM
>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Pins in the Tactile Array
>>
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>>> There may be more factors thanwe have isolated governing what we can
>>> read
>>> with how many pins in the array. Someprint may not be effected by the
>>> denser array which is a higher resolution. Some fingers may be so
>>> sensitive that again the number of array pins may not matter, and as
>>> has
>>> been mentioned, some read better with a lesser number of pins. We do
>>> have
>>> a large amount of testimony in the form of mesages by users stating
>>> that
>>> the Optacon II simply is not as clear as the r1d. Personally, there are
>>> many things I can read with the r1d that I could barely make out with
>>> the
>>> Optacon II. But since this does not appear to be the universal vies, we
>>> will have to keep in mind a choice of arrays in any new Optacon design.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -Catherine Thomas
>>> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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Hi, all,
Just a little more data on this subject of those pins in the arrays.
My late wife Rita and I used both the old and new optacons
for--gosh--it must have been at least five years. We both thought
that in reading ordinary print the new one with the fewer pins in its
array produced a considerably sharper immage than the older unit did.
From what I've been hearing, that isn't the general concensus by any
means. Interesting: I think it means that we've got too many
varriables on our hands (Yup, there's a pun intended).
And that situation might make it that much harder to get a working
readers' concensus on what kind of array should go into a newly
manufactured optacon--something so many of us hope for! I don't want
to suggest at all that there's anything impossible here, but any real
possibility of a newly manufactured instrument is going to require
the best of all practiccal worlds to be connived at by a lot of
intelligent optacon users who know what their doing, as so many
people on this list obviously are, and they're going to have to get
their heads together and make sure that they organize as a consulting
group for anyone who should ever get serious about manufacturing the
optacon again. Just one little thing out of God knows how many!
Regards,
Don Coleman
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