[access-uk] Re: Next Generation Perkins Brailler, no kidding!

  • From: "Husna Begum" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:17:37 +0100

that's true a computer would never last that long, good old brailler glad
it's working still.

Husna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Next Generation Perkins Brailler, no kidding!


> Hi Husna
>
> My mum and dad bought my Perkins for me when I started school in 1968,
which I think cost something ridiculous like £14.  The same machine sits on
my desk at home just as fit and well as it was back then.  It no longer
fronts my Braille I love ABBA stickers, but it's as good as new, and I
wouldn't swap it for anything there is today unless I really have to
contemplate it.  I took it to Birmingham in July to do my BTEC advanced
Braille exam, and it served me well.  It's one of these sacred things no
sophisticated technology could replace for me!
>
>
> Jackie Cairns
>  Braille Support Adviser
>  Email: Jackie.Cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sight and Sound Technology
>  Welton House North Wing
>  Summerhouse Road
>  Moulton Park
>  Northampton
>  NN3 6WD
>  Telephone: 01604 798024
>  Fax: 01604 798090
>  Web: www.sightandsound.co.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Husna Begum
> Sent: 15 October 2008 21:50
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Next Generation Perkins Brailler, no kidding!
>
> wow, the same brailler worked for 41 years! must be some kind of record.
at school they were allways going wrong.
>
> husna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clive Pallett" <clive.pallett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Access-UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:47 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Next Generation Perkins Brailler, no kidding!
>
>
> > Hello Jackie and fellow listers,
> >
> > Further to my last post, I'm certainly not kidding with the news of
> > the
> Next
> > Generation Perkins Brailler.  Just go to:
> >
> > www.perkinsbrailler.org
> >
> > You will find links to the features, FAQ, video, manual and even a
> > song composed by a blind guitarist which you can freely download.
> >
> > I have had My dear old Perkins Brailler for nearly 41 years and it has
> given
> > me trouble-free service, so will hold onto it for as long as possible.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Clive Pallett
> >
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