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Subject: Re: Mags In ASCII
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Date: 27 Jun 90 20:25:06 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Gary:

     Your analogy refering to the "humans in the missiles," was well 
taken, however, you've not responded to the actual premise--that if 
blind people want to only use voice output, is this really "reading," 

 I believe that writing really can be separated from the brailler 
text.  I "almost never," use a brailler to write text based materials, 
but I definitely like a brailler for writing code sketches, or figuring 
out calculus, or even just a simple outline for a speech.  I suppose 
I could use a braille-&-speak, which I have, to do outlines for speeches, 
but how would that work?  I use my braille and speak to store temporary 
notes from meetings, phone lists work great, but I hate trying to 
program on the thing--because of its 1-dimensional aspect, you have 
forward, and backward, not up/down/left/right.

     One interesting thing on the Navigator, a braille displa from 
TSI, is the program to make it work in a VersaBraille environment. 

 I am not sure if I understand this well, but essentially what I understand 
is that it also make it somewhat one dimensional--a string rather 
than an image.  I feel this is limiting especially with the advent 
of the graphics interfaces, etc.

     I recently use the Amiga 2000, and Chip's demo AmigaTalk program. 

 Its pretty good, but for the one-dimensional thinker it'd be scary 
indeed, you have tasks in windows, and it could get confusing.

     Okay, enough of my babbling in the morning for now.  Take care, 
and any thoughts on this issue are welcome.  I am working on a braille 
translator, but I wonder if anybody will want one.

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