I used bex with a versipoint that sounded like a machine gun and barely crancked out 30 chars per sec. I really didn't use it very much, it was mostely my braillest. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re: OLD DAYS > If you can understand the Braille 'N Speak, you can understand the Echo. > At least to me, they sound very similar. > > Yes, I remember BEX. It had those cryptic commands like " $$c " to center > text. You absolutely had to put the spaces around them or they wouldn't > work. I used it with an embosser called an Ohtsuki. Obviously made in > Japan. It was a really slow embosser that could produce both Braille and > print, but neither was very sharp. The Braille felt like the paper had > been stepped on, and everybody said that the print was very faint like it > needed a new ribbon even when it had a brand new one. It wasn't a ribbon, > but a little rubber wheel and it had holes at the end of each page to > detect the end of the page. Weird! > > I even used a shell account from an Apple IIGS and that was my first > experience with Pine. That's why I still use Pine even though some say > Mutt is better. It's hard to change when you've been using Pine that > long. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
