You say you want to use a one-handed type keyboard instead of braille? If I was going to purchase a notetaker I don't know if I would want to learn a new system . I've used braille for a good part of my life. On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, William Loughborough wrote: > At 09:20 AM 4/26/2003 -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote: > >I'll dig up a couple > > Once I discovered it's "PAC Mate" and not Packmate I learned a lot more > than I wanted to know about the unit. Anyway it's original issue price of > $2595 (+over $100 for a modem) although it strikes one as pricey, probably > isn't at all out of line considering the "nicheness" of the market and the > aggravation of having had to reverse engineer a bunch of M$ stuff. > > Of course one could make an embedded system using some of the currently > available machinery and either undertaking (scratch or retrofit) would be a > lot more major than anyone going into it would care to admit to. Since I > think that this would be a good idea I'll try to get something started. > Politically, I think I will start from a point of view that this is a > project for the future and will opt for a one hand chording keyboard > instead of a two hand braille approach. The learning curve to become > proficient with such a device is more like a month than a year and then it > can fit in a pocket and potentially have tactile feedback as well. It could > also dramatically widen the market for true miniaturization because the > size bottlenecks of QWERTY keyboard (you can shrink the keys but not the > fingers!) and visual display (although retinal projection will become tiny > shortly) are addressed by a seven-button chording input and tactile output. > > I'll report back in a couple months on my feasibility study about getting > the project started - I already know it can be done and firmly believe that > Linux is the way to go. If that sounds like too slow I apologize, but > that's how things work - get backing, get tech support, get hardware, build > it and they will come. > > -- > Love. > > It's Bad Luck to be Superstitious! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
