[Dtb-talk] NLS Digital Players

[Greg Kearney]

While the NLS does write protect the cartridges it is possible I guess to still erase them given the right kind of computer setup. We have yet to have anyone accidentally erase a cartridge and even if they were to do so it would impact only that user as the cartridges as assigned to a particular user and are erased and reloaded each time they come back to us.

Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
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On 16/02/2010, at 8:11 AM, Tim Gillett wrote:

> Some of you have been talking about reloading thumbdrives with different files 
> but as David Andrews reminded us, the NLS is not in that business.
> 
> One of the benefits of providing a special player for clients is precisely that
> you can make it incapable of erasing / rewriting the cartridge's files.
> 
> Here's a cautionary tale:
> 
> Many years ago the Association For the Blind of
> Western Australia in its infinite wisdom decided to stop supplying special
> NLS type cassette tape players - or any tape players - to its clients.
> 
> This move came back to bite them. 
> ABWA staff began to get complaints from clients of titles with whole sections blank. 
> With the record capable cassette machines that clients were now forced to use, 
> some clients were accidentally pressing the record button instead of play, 
> and at random points through the title.
> 
> ABWA had a problem on its hands, all of its own making, that it had never anticipated.
> 
> I assume that like the old analog players the new NLS players
> will similarly be incapable of erasing/formatting cartridges, 
> thereby protecting all patrons from inadvertently mutilated titles!
> 
> 
> Tim Gillett
> Audio/Electronics Technician
> Perth, Western Australia
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