Mike, those of us who use an old Perkins have vouched for their superiority
in build and reliability. No matter what it looks like, and what decade we
are in, I wouldn't trade my faithful old girl for anything, it will be here
long after I am gone!!
Kind Regards,
Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mike Ray
Sent: 07 April 2016 11:47
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Alternatives to Perkins
Well I'm not sure about this.
The point of my original email was that in my experience the Perkins
Brailler is an unreliable piece of antique junk. It's my experience that it
might work one day, then when you go back to it a couple of days later,
without it ever having been moved, it doesn't work.
The backspace key on the one I was using recently now seems to have stopped
working for no apparent reason.
It's 2016. We now have more computing power in the palms of our hands than
that which put men on the moon nearly fifty years ago. But to type Braille
we still have to use something that looks and feels like it was invented by
Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
On 07/04/2016 11:18, Jackie Brown wrote:
Then his best bet is to find some kind soul who will relinquish their
old Perkins!
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Jackie Brown
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Behalf Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 07 April 2016 11:16
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Alternatives to Perkins
The King writes on its own sheets of plastic producing upward dots by
using a hollow pointed style. It would be no good for labels and its
Braille is generally poorly defined.
On 7 Apr 2016, at 10:35, Jackie Brown <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:originals.
Hi David
The Dymo Braille Labeller is still about as far as I know. There is
also something I think called a King Braille Frame, but goodness
knows how that works. You can get both from RNIB.
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Behalf Of David W Wood (Redacted sender "david.g3yxx" for DMARC)
Sent: 07 April 2016 10:28
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Hi Mike
I am not up to date with Braille writing products.
There did used to be a metal one-line frame to manually rite each dot.
Maybe others know better than me.
Is the Braille dymo labeler no longer available?
ATB
David W Wood
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 10:02 AM
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Hello David.
Do you know whether any of the Braille frames might be suitable for
making the occasional label?
I have loads of rolls of the 12mm Dymo tape here but the plastic Dymo
labeller is so rubbish I can't use it consistently either.
Mike
On 07/04/2016 09:09, David W Wood (Redacted sender david.g3yxx for
DMARC) wrote:
Mike
As others have said, the modern Perkins is not as robust as the
Mine is serial 1472 I think, and is now more than fifty years oldstill
and
going.which
The Stainsby was a downward writer, the paper being clamped into a
bar
was held in place by two lugs at the top of a robust metal board.offset
The carriage had to be manually moved down line by line.
It wrote from right to left as it was a downward writing device, the
keys being roughly in the same orientation as the character being
written, and each representing a dot.
Another difference between it and the Perkins is that you could
write on both sides of the paper as the clamp had lugs on both
surfaces, being
from each other.Of
ATB
David W Wood
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Mike Ray
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 7:57 AM
To: Access-UK
Subject: [access-uk] Alternatives to Perkins
Hello folks.
Are there any affordable alternatives to the Perkins Brailler?
I have used at least 4 different Perkins in my lifetime and I find
them to be the most unreliable, inconsistent and unreliable machines
I have ever touched. To say nothing of the arcane design.
Are there any viable alternatives that are affordable? I once had a
feel of something which I think was called a 'Stainsby' Brailler but
I can find no information about where to get one.
I don't need to type a lot of Braille but need to be able to make
labels mostly.
Mike
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