Brian, The Braille lite will accept infut through its serial port, write it to a file and simultaneousby display it. You can read ady of the imput , and if you make the file big, it'll be a while before you have to emfty it. Used Braille Lites are quite inexpensive. John On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:25:25PM -0400, Lee_Maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Brian, > > What do you want to do with it? > > If you want to read the computer screen in braille, using the computer > keyboard to enter stuff to the computer, then most anything that looks > like it'd be comfortable and easy to use will work. If you want to get > information off the computer and put it in the braille&keyboard unit's > memory to read somewhere else, you need one of the notetakers like PAC > Mate (the one I have) or something like that. > > The PAC Mate is nice in that you can detach the braille part and use > it on a computer as described above. This part of it will work on > Linux or Windows; not sure about DOS but I haven't heard that they've > written a DOS driver. You can also stick in a network card or modem > and use it as a terminal with many ISP's. (This is true of most > notetakers but try before you buy.) > > To download information to read elsewhere you'll need to either > connect to Windows and use a screenreader, or use a memory stick or > other external storage; put the information on that storage and then > move it to the notetaker. > > Lee > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 07:04:15AM +0000, Brian Tew wrote: > > My old versabrailler looks like it is about to croak. > > I want a display that will just act as an ascii terminal. > > I would rather not have to mess with a screen reader. > > Do yall know if any modern displays are simple enough to do that now? > > -- > > Lee Maschmeyer > <lee_Maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> > > "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear > to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than > what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." > --Lewis Carroll > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list