[blindkid] Orion TI 36x talking calculator question

[Carol Castellano]

Yes, when Serena went away to college, all her chargers were marked in braille.

At 08:41 PM 6/14/2009, you wrote:
>Marking with tape is an excellent suggestion-- we have dozens of
>electronic items around here, each with it's  own "wall wart" or
>"brick" power supply. Very few are interchangeable so I try and mark
>all of them I can. For what it may be worth, I have actually found
>that brightly colored 3M electrical tape (from Home Depot, etc.) holds
>up a bit better and when written on with a Sharpie the label lasts for
>years. As a bonus, I know which ones have yellow or red or blue labels
>(etc.) making it even easier to narrow down the choices... It is
>amazing how well these labels hold up! A really nice feature with this
>tape is that usually you can peel off the electrical tape years later
>and leave virtually no residue-- again, this is with the better
>quality 3M tape-- probably $3 or $4 a roll and available in many
>colors. I would NOT suggest the cheap 99 cent stuff-- it will leave a
>gooey mess every time and it tends to move and slide when something
>like a power supply gets warm.
>
>We're not quite ready to encourage Kendra (not quite age 7 at this
>point) to plug and unplug things from the wall yet, if for no other
>reason than she'd soon want to unplug everything she ran across, but
>when she's a bit older I suspect braille dymo labels would be a great
>idea especially for her items and obviously conventional (print) dymo
>labels could also be useful for print readers...
>
>Richard
>
>
>
>On Jun 14, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Carol Castellano wrote:
>
>>Maybe the manufacturer can help you?  We finally started putting a
>>piece of masking tape on each charger as it entered the house and
>>marking what piece of equipment it belonged to.
>>Carol
>>
>>At 12:14 PM 6/14/2009, you wrote:
>>>David Thomas has this talking calculator, it is about two years
>>>old.  We have not used it much, as we have tried to take the abacus
>>>and "math think" as far as we could.  We now have a problem, we are
>>>not sure if we have the right charger selected for it.  If anyone
>>>else has one and could double check their charger as described
>>>below, that would be helpful to us.
>>>
>>>The charger that we think goes to the calculator says 6volt, 1 amp
>>>on the side.  It also says "Egston" on the top of the charger.  It
>>>doesnt say Orion or TI anywhere, but these chargers are often third
>>>party items that are not made by the primary manufacturer.   The
>>>charging end that goes into the calculator is silver with a yellow
>>>plastic tip.
>>>
>>>If anyone can verify that this description, particularly the
>>>voltage and amperage, is what fits theirs then we will be sure that
>>>we wont accidentally "smoke" this 279 dollar item.
>>>
>>>Muchas gracias, Andy Thomas
>>>
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>>Carol Castellano, President
>>National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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Carol Castellano, President
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
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