[nfbcs] Notetaker Reviews

Mon Sep 7 18:25:01 UTC 2009

Nick is still around, repairing, selling etc.  Can't remember his 
company though, try searching for Index and other terms like usa, 
north America, repairs etc.

I can't find David Pillischer, and we were pretty good friends.  I 
know he was working on a blindness project for a while, suspect it 
was a large Braille embosser, but guess that it has fallen through as 
he hasn't been around anywhere in over a year.

Dave

At 10:12 PM 9/6/2009, you wrote:
>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
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Notetaker Reviews
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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
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>From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
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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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