When I first started using a refreshable Braille display.  Some of the
computer brail symbols are confusing.  I have no idea why they have to be
different from literary Braille.  
73 KA5POW Blake


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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Jackie Shepherd
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: UEB

Regarding your first question, they probably shared the responsibility with 
frustrated old men who couldn't cut the mustard any more (grin).

I don't remember school books of that vintage, as I was born in '49, but I 
do have some other books dated around that period of time.  I too hate 
British Braille and wish they would just leave it alone.  I see so many 
young people using computers and recorders instead of Braille any more, it's

pathetic!

Jackie Shepherd
AF7KG

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From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: UEB


>I have always thought that the Braille rules were made by frustrated old
> ladies who haven't had sex in thirty years or more.
> Who else would make up the arcane rules we live with.
> I am glad that I make most of my own Braille, but I hope all of the lovely
> books we can still get, won't be thrown out and replaced with some 
> universal
> code that will be unreadable universally.
> I even struggle with British Braille.  I keep looking for the capitol
> letters.
> When I was in school, we still had books produced by the WPA.  Now imagine
> that, history under your fingers.  Those books were 40 years old, made
> before the Perkiness, and made by people who would have been abandoning
> their families and living as Hobo's, if not for President Roosevelt's
> programs and the new deal.
> I wonder if any of those books are still around?
>
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