[nfbcs] Notetaker Reviews

Mon Sep 7 05:55:02 UTC 2009

I could be mistaken, but I think he passed away recently.
I know he had health issues in recent years.

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> Speaking of braille displays (well, not really), has anyone heard where 
> Dave
> Pilisher of the now defunct company Sighted Electronics has gone?
> I googled his name and got 1 hit -- his name was in an attendance list at
> some meeting in 2006, representing SightedElectronics. But now that 
> company
> is gone and I can't find Dave anywhere. I wanted to see if he is still in
> the blindness business or if he gave it up (hopefully not in disgust).
>
> For that matter, where is Nick, the technician at S.E. who always repaired
> my embosser?
> I remember speaking to him a few years ago and he had joined another 
> company
> doing the same thing he did for S.E., but since I don't have his last name
> and can't remember where he was living when I talked to him or whom he was
> working for, I'm out of ideas.
>
> Just checking.  I would not mind using his services again if my embosser
> need a repair.
>
> TIA
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:50 PM
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>
> Hello Joe. I don't have a lot of information to share with you, but at 
> least
> that means my note will be relatively brief.
>
> I have used a BrailleNote from Humanware for quite a while now. I'm very
> impressed with the way that it lets me edit documents, and I have used
> KeySoft long enough that it now seems intuitive to me whereas it might not
> have before. I like the fact that I do not get bogus messages from Windows
> which come from trying to use software which was really designed for
> something else.
>
> The long and short of why I use a BrailleNote over a Pac mate is very
> simple. What I noticed was a significant difference in the rate of time it
> took to refresh the Braille display when I said I wanted the machine to
> advance to the next display full of Braille text. I like to deliver my
> remarks directly from the BrailleNote if I can. This gives me the
> opportunity to revise them almost up to the point where I deliver them. It
> may be that this allows me to slip in a piece of humor which occurred 30
> minutes before the banquet, or to incorporate what, after a daylong
> convention session appears to be a theme which was not apparent at the
> beginning. In any event, if you are going to use the Braille display for
> rapid reading, even a fraction of a second difference in how quickly the
> unit responds when you tell it to give you the next Braille line to read 
> is
> of tremendous importance. I did not find that the Pac mate had nearly as
> rapid a refresh rate as did the BrailleNote, and in some respects I'm very
> sorry about that because I appreciated very much the quietness of the Pac
> mate keyboard relative to the BrailleNote.
>
> I have no hands-on experience with the Braille Sense but have heard very
> good things about it from Curtis Chon and other people who work for the 
> Iowa
> Department for the Blind. Perhaps they will chime in with some thoughts of
> their own.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> Gary
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:09 PM
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>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry for the cross-post.
>>
>> Is it correct that the Braille Sense Plus, BrailleNote mPower and Pac 
>> Mate
>> are the only three Braille notetakers at the moment?  I have an mPower I
>> want to get rid of, but at six thousand dollars for a new device the damn
>> thing had better do what I need it to.  KeySoft is not all that amusing
>> for
>> me, but for anyone considering the mPower it has more to do with personal
>> preference.
>>
>> I found a comparison chart on GW Micro's web site over these three
>> products,
>> but I would be interested in another round of personal reviews from 
>> anyone
>> who can speak to their likes and dislikes on the units.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>>
>> Joe Orozco
>>
>> "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
>> crowd."--Max Lucado
>>
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