It's a small computer board that is about the size of a deck of cards.  The b version is a quod core with 1GB of memery. The OS generally is a variant of Linux however there is mint to be a version of windows 10. 

Scott
N0HOK / ZL1CHM
Auckland New Zealand

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On 27/12/2015, at 9:37 PM, David W Wood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Tom and all
> 
> I have heard bits about this device for a while but have no clue about its
> physical presentation.
> I realize that this is a basic question, but can someone describe it?
> Also, its basic software or o/s?
> 
> 73
> 
> David W Wood 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Tom Fowle
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 4:59 AM
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> Subject: Re: OT: screen reader for raspberry pi
> 
> According to the raspberryvi.org site orca is not yet up on the pi.
> It is for accessing desktops like gnome whereas speakup works at the
> console/command line level of linux.
> tom Fowle WA6IVG
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 09:02:29PM -0700, Eric Oyen wrote:
>> there is one other package you might consider.
>> 
>> its called ORCA and it also needs python as a prerequisite. I use it on =
>> my linux partition with the gnome desktop and it works quite well.
>> 
>> DE n7zzt Eric
>> 
>> On Dec 26, 2015, at 7:00 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
>> 
>>> Scott,
>>> the best source of such info is
>>> http://www.raspberryvi.org/
>>> =20
>>> I believe they are close to having either speakup or yasr working
>>> and there is the aforementioned ssh method. where you read the pi's =
>> output
>>> on your windows or linux box.
>>> Tom Fowle WA6IVG
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:17:27PM +1300, Scott Gillen wrote:
>>>> Any one know of a screen reader for the Raspberry Pi?
>>>> =20
>>>> Scott
>>>> N0HOK / ZL1CHM
>>>> Auckland New Zealand
>>>> =20
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>