[accesscomp] Re: braille blazer.
- From: "Frank Ventura" <Frank.Ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:08:31 -0400
If you want to know what ports you computer has and you are running
windows go into the device manager under the hardware tab of system
properties and arrow down to "Ports" and expand that to see what ports
you have installed.
Frank Ventura, MCP
From: accesscomp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:accesscomp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Ward
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:59 PM
To: accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [accesscomp] Re: braille blazer.
Oh I did not know that. I did get a computer from someone which they
built for me and on the back there is a port that fits that kind of
cable, I don't know what that does, but at least I can use the blazer
with my Braille and Speak, in fact I still have a switch box am sure
they are not used anymore, but thought I might keep it for a back up or
something. I was wondering what kind of embosser do you use? I also
downloaded this one program you can not get it anymore called wintrans.
I wonder if that would support the Blazer?
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Granados <mailto:gsgranados@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 7:16 PM
Subject: [accesscomp] Re: braille blazer.
So you have a few problems here.
First, USB on it's own is not compatible with parallel. USB
uses a serial type connection and parallel obviously uses parallel.
Parallel is very old school. I haven't used a parallel printer since
1990 or so. Now, they may make a parallel to USB adapter but I doubt
this would be very usable. One thing you might be able to do is install
a SERIAL / Parallel port card in your PC. These cost sub $15 and
include a serial port and parallel port which would work.
HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Ward <mailto:groovy41@xxxxxxxx>
To: Accessible Computing
<mailto:accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 2:35 PM
Subject: [accesscomp] braille blazer.
Hello I was wondering would the braille blazer work with
a usb cable since it does call for a parallel cable, don't know if my
computer has a area for the cable to be plugged in to since the cable is
kind of big, would a usb cable work since one end would plug in to the
computer that would be the usb part and on the blazer on the parallel
port the big part would be plugged in. I had to replace my cable for the
print printer just by getting a USB cable, I wonder would this apply to
the braille blazer as well? Also would Duxbury pick this up since am
running windows xp?
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