[duxuser] Re: Upgrades. Was: Is'nt braille a language?
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:00:57 +0100
Hi Dale,
If you bought DBT WIN over 3 or more years ago, the upgrade
will cost you $295 USD or close to $385 Canadian at today's
exchange rate.
If you bought 10.4, then the cost will be $195 USD or around
$255 Canadian.
Hope this clarifies things a little.
George.
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dale
Leavens
Sent: 02 September 2004 03:32
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Upgrades. Was: Is'nt braille
a language?
Well, nearly $600 USD is getting on for $900.00 CDN.
But I don't quite understand the pricing shown. It looks
like a SMA only applies if the product owned is under a year
old. I am sure I am wrong about that. I remember though that
the version I bought in January 2000, 10.3 I think was soon
superseded and it seems to me that I didn't upgrade then for
a similar reason, the full cost for a few tweaks and the
Swift add-in. Quite reasonable I am sure for a Braille
production house but a little steep for us on-the-fly
disposable document users. It is in the range of $400 a
year. I remember when a pretty good typewriter could be had
for that.
Of course, I just bought a new Perkins Brailler for
$1,400. Mine needed service bad but I couldn't afford to
send it away until I had a replacement. In the end the
repair cost for one was $12.00 and the other $40, we have
three here now, two in constant use and now a third for
standby I suppose. My original machine was $125.00 back in
1969 and it came with a hard case. now that is a couple of
hundred extra.
This is less a complaint than a statement of fact. I
could have spent as much money keeping up with DBT in the
past four years as we have used on Perkins braillers
beginning with the first one my wife bought in about 1965.
Back then the RNIB had some sort of subsidy, I believe she
paid 15 quid.
----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
<mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:15 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Upgrades. Was: Is'nt
braille a language?
Hi Dale,
I don't know where the $900 came from (Which
currency?), but you will find current
American
Dollar prices at the following:-
http://www.duxburysystems.com/Prices_04_20040621.h
tm
George Bell.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
Dale Leavens
Sent: 24 August 2004 05:49
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Upgrades. Was: Is'nt
braille a language?
I don't know how one can afford to keep up.
Having
just upgraded computers, jaws, K1000, and
another
Braille Printer, the Index Basic-D which I
will be
requiring assistance with soon, can't get it
working right. They told me it would cost
nearly
nine hundred dollars to move from 10.3 to
10.4 in
April and now you say 10.5!
I would really like that Swift utility
function
though!
Do you know if 10.5 is handling tables in
WordPerfect any better? A space between
columns
and a new line between rows?
I think my computers though are all
possessed with
gremlins.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario
dleavens@xxxxxxx
Home of the Polar Bear Express!
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell"
<george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 5:50 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Upgrades. Was: Is'nt
braille a language?
Hi Caroline,
If it was March this year, then I don't
think you
have a problem. Just be ready for an
internet
download.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
Caroline Congdon
Sent: 23 August 2004 22:26
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Upgrades. Was: Is'nt
braille a language?
George, I haven't exactly placed my order
for the
10.5 upgrade, but I'm entitled for a free
upgrade
if I understand correctly since I purchased
my
Duxbury originally in I believe March. Is
this
correct? Thanks. Looking forward to the
new
version!!!
Caroline
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