[nfb-talk] Braille Monitor

[bookwormahb at earthlink.net]

Yep very durable; I have had cassettes over 20 years; my CDs can only last a 
few years and then they get scratched or something.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Freeman
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 5:20 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Braille Monitor

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
sent from my iPhone


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
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> 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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