Frank, You may want to direct this question on the blindtech list. To subscribe, send a blank message to: blindtech-subscribe@xxxxxxxxx If that subscription address is incorrect, hopefully someone will correct me. Without making any judgements, the three notetakers I'm aware of are the PACMate (made by Freedom Scientific), the Elba (who I believe is made by Papenmier) and the BrailleNote (made by Pulsedata). Visuade will be coming out with a notetaker of their own, but I don't know any more than that...sorry! Hope this helps! Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank fitzgerald" <fitzy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: about note takers Hi all I'm going to be buying a note taker with a braille display and definitely a querty keyboard, I type really really fast! anyway I've looked at the note takers available from freedom and pulse data and I admit I am at a loss as to where my best bet lies. if any of you have any experience with these things please let me know anything you have to say on the subject, what you like don't like what problems and strengths they have and if in fact there are any braille note takers made by any other companies that I don't know of yet! these things cost an awful lot of money and this is coming out of my pocket so I want to make the best informed choice I can! since this is kind of off topic for this list I'd be happy if you'd send me your responses to fitzy@xxxxxxxxxxxx and thanks in advance! frank -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx