[bookport] Re: I tried to kill my Bookport

  • From: "David Allen" <wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:10:12 +1300

Hi Lana and list:

I am curious. What word processing features would you want the book port to have? I know it can't handle anything real complex, but it is pretty powerful just the same. The only thing that I haven't managed to do that I wanted was write a page break directly into a note file, so I acknowledge that it has limitations.

Cheers,
Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: I tried to kill my Bookport


I bet I know what it was.  After you used a tape several times, you got
gremlen gabble instead of sense.  Some tapes were really stable, but
others...
I, for one, wouldn't do without my braille lite M-20, but if Book Port had a
few more word processing features, well...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:37 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: I tried to kill my Bookport


I had one of the original tape-based VersaBrailles back in the eighties.
It had a neglegeble, but chronic problem ... I can't even remember what
it was. One day the unit took a tumble off my desk onto the concrete
school floor. The only consequence was a slight scratch on the lid, and
the chronic problem disappeared entirely, never to be seen again.

Bruce
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:29:50 -0500, "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> The sickest I've felt in recent years was the day my wife dropped her
> brand
> new digital camera from a standing height on the concrete floor of a
> picnic
> shelter. She'd had the camera less than a month and it survived without
> any
> damage whatever, although I still don't know how. For those who aren't
> necessarily aware of such details, digital cameras; unlike standard > 35mm
> cameras; ordinarily don't have a neck strap. Well, I contacted the
camera
> manufacturer after this incident and learned that there actually _is_ > an
> optional neck strap that absolutely nobody carries and that wasn't even
> listed in the manufacturer's official list of accessories.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:34 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: I tried to kill my Bookport
>
>
> Well, I have to say I have never been quite that hard on my Book Port,
> but I
> will admit it has hit the floor more than once, and I think the only
> access
> technology hardware that I have ever seen that would take as much abuse
> as
> the Book Port was the old Braille 'N Speaks.  I had a BNS Classic that
> got
> plenty of abuse and kept right on working, and a BNS 640 that got > droped
> hard enough to crack the bottom of the unit, but it still works.
>
> Now, let us hope the new Book Port will be just as tough and sturdy as
> the
> current model.
>
>
>

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