[bookport] Re: Hardware upgrade!
- From: "Michael Bowman-Jones" <mikebowmanjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:37:50 -0700
Greetings, List.
The comment re always being bugs etc. is true to a point--it just seems
there are tenfold the usual number on a first-generation product and I
refuse to spend four digits worth of my hard-earned coin on such a gizmo--I
can wait.
To conclude this as we are off topic: I truly hope and pray it works out
for you should you take such a course and I would truly love nothing better
than to be wrong. By the way, my position also applies to mainstream
computer hardware and software, of which I have some experience in
implementing and working with from first generation on and there were times
it was a nightmare. Again, good luck.
Michael and his old 286 computer
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Allen" <wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:44 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Hardware upgrade!
Hi Michael and list:
Doesn't matter how many generations it is. There will always be bugs,
needs for fixes, etc. Nothing particularly unusual about that. Recently, I
was thinking about how we used to talk about what we did or didn't like
about a new version of something when it came out. Well, it finally
occurred to me that it was really a pointless discussion. I mean, when I
new version of something comes out that allows us to do something we want
to do, we have to take it, bugs and all, and use it the way it is,
regardless of what we do or don't like.
Cheers,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bowman-Jones" <mikebowmanjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:12 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Hardware upgrade!
Greetings, List.
The other thing is that this is first-generation stuff and Lord alone
knows how many bugs, fixes, upgrades, etc. you would have to deal with in
the future.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Licht" <slicht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:32 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Hardware upgrade!
When I read that this device was going to use USB1.1, I admit I was no
longer impressed. That is old technology. To my way of thinking, the
only thing it has going for it is, it claims to be smaller than a
laptop. Oh, well... To each his own...
At 05:16 PM 10/21/2006, Kevin Jones wrote:
check out www.levelstar.com
though the pda isn't out yet, you should have the abilities of a
bookport a plextalk and much more
Nancy Stevens wrote:
Hi Hope,
That is a cool saying at the end of your message.
Nancy
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Hope Hein
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:35 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Hardware upgrade!
Hi Walt!
I purchased a Plextor from recordings for the Blind a year ago.
Unfortunately it is on the blink because it fell off of a desk. The
Bookport
has an advantage because it is smaller and just uses CF cards. For some
reason I was told by Recordings for the Blind that I was not allowed to
transfer the material from the CD's to the CF card on the Plextor even
though it was being done on the Bookport. They would not be able to be
read
because of the protection. That is one of the main reasons I bought the
Bookport besides the Bookport is more durable. The Plextor had some
advantages such as the ones mentioned in my message. Is there any way
that
AFB could work with a company to combine say the features of the
Bookport
and the Plextor?
Just throwing out thoughts.
Thank you for your patients.
Pondering, imagination and collaboration lead to new or improved
inventions.
Hope
-----Original Message-----
.From: "Walt Smith"<walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
.Sent: 10/20/06 9:30:11 AM
.To: "bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.Subject: [bookport] Re: Hardware upgrade!
.
.Hope -
.
.While there's been no official statement from APH concerning their
future
.plans, I think it's safe to say that the general consensus among those
of
us .who've been around here for a while that eventually, there will be
a new
.Book Port. There have been so many requests for improvements of the
exact
.kind you mention (improved audio quality, the ability to speed up MP3
and
.Audible materials) that can't currently be accommodated in the
existing
.hardware that it seems a fair guess that a new and improved BP is
probably
.under consideration.
.
.Just to give you an idea of what has to be accommodated, though, bear
in
.mind that right now, APH is dependent on Springer Design for the
hardware
.and unless Springer decides to upgrade their own BookCourier, on which
the
.BP is heavily based, it very well might not be economically feasible
for
APH .to go it alone in the development and introduction of a new model.
Then, the .two parties would have to reach some kind of general
agreement on
what new .functions and features they want so that a single hardware
unit
could be .developed with APH then assuming responsibility for their own
firmware .development as is the case today. This can't be an easy
process at
best.
.
.----- Original Message -----
.From: "Hope Hein" <hmhein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
.To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:11 PM
.Subject: [bookport] Hardware upgrade!
.
.
.Will there be an upgrade coming out for the Bookport? I listened to my
.children's IPODS and they have a wonderful sound for such small
devices. I
.am wondering if you are considering to allow for improved sound as
well as
.to allow the Bookport user to speed up or sloe audio speech.
.
.I thought I read something about an update next year but was not sure
if I
.heard right and what that would entail.
.
.Thank you for doing such a great job.
.Hope
.
.
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