Just so you know, I and at least one other person have had similar
experiences to yours, resets, inaccessible characters, and more than one
unit. So this is indeed a rather interesting rarity. Yet, we continue
using the pac mates.
js
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From: VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Breeze
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 09:59
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Subject: Re: Any Pack Mate fans or critics?
I bought the pacmate primarily for it's integral braille display to
replace a braille lite that I was using. I have found the unit to be
rather flaky in it's operation to the extent that it ocationally
performs a hard reset entirely on it's own. This means that all files,
calendar entries and notes or tasks are wiped clean. I have become very
maticulus about syncronizing the unit with my desktop to perform
restores.
I am on my third unit and although FS said this is extremely
rare, it has happend on all three units.
I do think that for the money, this unit should have been built
on a laptop plantform rather than the pocket pc. I program in unix C
quite abit and was hoping to be able to edit these text programs on my
pacmate, but pocket PC does not display tabs the same way as desktop
windows or unix or VMS or any other operating system I used, hence the
format is unusable. When I asked FS support about this, the consultant
just said to me, "well maybe you should have bought a laptop". Nice huh!
It has also changed time zones, speach settings and set up
spurious tasks on it's own. When the unit is used on ac for a period of
time, it looses it's sound.
I would think twice about buying this unit.
Breeze
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David Burzese
HRIS Project Director
Administrative Computing and Information Services
Carnegie Mellon
Phone: 412-268-3862
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