Years ago I had a chance to see a typewriter that had been made into a
Braille writer. I believe that it started life as a IBM typewriter that is
as far as the keyboard goes. You type the words as you would on a
typewriter but the carriage moved from right to left. You had to turn the
paper over and then the Braille could be read from left to right. That
thing was very loud.. I think that it was to be use by a sighted person for
transcription.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Kwan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: good old brailler
well what exactly is an electric brailer for? Besides hooking it to a
computer. At school I saw an electric brailer printer hooked to the apple.
That thing was loud. Then there was a regular brailer hooked to the apple
and it was used for scribing, but that stuff is old.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: good old brailler
Is the electric one the one that looks like a regular brailler but has the
box on the site to hook up to a computer, with the switch on it? If so, I
had one in school we borrowed when one of ours broke, never gave it back
either, but anyway, I used that one like a manual one. I'm not sure if
that's what that was or if this was some sort of add on kit, we borrowed it
with no cables or anything so we could only use it like a manual one.
Actually, that was the old style so that had to be some sort of add on kit,
I don't know, I'd bet that school still has it since the person with the
connections to borrow that one is long gone to another part of the country
and I visited her at school about a month before she left and it was still
there then. It was a 6 month borrowing that went to, actually middle school
too so it was probably 7 years at least they had the thing that I know of
and it's probably collecting dust somewhere now still with in the schools.
I'd sure hope they learned to use the computerized stuff, I'd hate to think
of a poor teacher brailling everything out like they did for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Sebastian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: good old brailler
> Hi Guys,
> When I lived in Florida, a man in Orlando repaired them at no cost except
> if
> he had to order parts. I went to the Miami area and took my Perkins with
> me
> to run the medium speed CW net. The man said, if he knew that was what I
> wanted, they had one. I am glad I took mine. The one they had didn't
> work.
> I learned that his wife bought if at a yard sale for $15. When I left,
> they
> gave me the brailler. I took it to the man or Orlando and he had to order
> a
> main spring, a $6 item.
>
> His wife was a professional Braillist and used an electric Perkins. One
> day
> while I was there, I had the opportunity to try it out. Physically, it
> looks like any other Perkins, except for the switch on the right side.
> Oh,
> btw, it is much noisier than the manual version.
>
> Walt
> WA4QXT
> New London CT
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