[nfb-talk] Braille Monitor

[Mike Freeman]

Durable? You've got to be kidding. You might be right with respect to reel-to-reel tape although I actually preferred it to cassettes. And CD's can be scratched. But try to splice the tape in a cassette or disentangle one and the love-affair quickly fades! And if the tape duplicator heads were dirty or misaligned ...

Mike Freeman
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On Aug 3, 2011, at 13:44, <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Chuck,
> I agree; I will miss the cassette too. Cassettes are small, light and durable.
> They turned out great quality too.
> Ashley
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Braille Monitor
> 
> This is unfortunate as we have many elderly members of our chapter who are
> not computer users or Braille readers. I would think that the cassette
> version would continue to be a good outreach tool to get new federationsits.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys at roadrunner.com>
> To: "nfb-talk" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:56 PM
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Braille Monitor
> 
> 
>> I am surprised that no one has referred to Dr. Maurer's announcement of the end of the cassette edition of the Braille Monitor after the December issue. Computer users will be encouraged to download it, but no decision has yet been made as to what will be done for non-computer users. A possibility is thumb drives, which can be cheaper than the cartridges. We are supposed to get a full announcement in September. In answer to a question, we were told that it cannot be placed on BARD, but downloads will have to be from an NFB site.
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