[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: refreshable Braille display on eBay
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:01:35 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for telling us all about that, Ann! I feel bad that I even posted, then,
without asking anyone for information. I would feel really bad if someone spent
hard-earned money on something that was not useful today. It just looked so
good
and I know that 80 cells are especially expensive.
Well, hopefully someone can do something besides use it as a doorstop… Smiles.
Happy Labor Day everyone!
Valerie
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From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, September 3, 2012 8:23:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: refreshable Braille display on eBay
Hi all,
The Navigator is a legacy machine that was designed to work in DOS, not
Windows. It may work in Win95, but it may not. If it is missing a power
supply, unless you knew the exact specs on it, you could ruin it if you got a
power supply of the wrong kind. Since the machines aren't made any more, and
since the likelihood of obtaining the correct power supply is questionable, I'd
not lay out any money for it.
This may be the same blessed machine that was talked about on BlindTech. I
said
there, and I'll say again, unless you have the correct drivers for your OS, all
you'd be purchasing is a door stop. You would have to have the right drivers,
the right power supply and all. The Drivers might be more difficult to obtain
then even the power supply. For you nontechies, a driver is a piece of
software
that allows your peripheral to communicate with your computer. If the driver
isn't right, your computer is going to start shouting, "Eh? What's that you
said? Huh? Don't understand you at all. I don't speak DOS or Win95."
What is probably going on is that somebody who used to have this display has
died. The sighted family has absolutely no idea what they're trying to sell,
but they know that Uncle Joe or Dad or Granddad or Grandma payed $6,000.00 back
in 1985, and surely it's worth something. Well---Door Stop? Anchor?
Telesensory Systems museum piece?
Unless you're one of the very few dynasaurs around here who's running DOS,
you'd
be purchasing a chimera.
Ann P.
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