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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
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Subject: Re: BLND DATABASE & B.R.S.
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Date: 2 Oct 90 01:11:16 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to Gary Petraccaro <09-20-90 10:16> Dan Kysor wrote:
->
-> DK> printer.  Mr. Cylke stated to me that access to the "blnd"
-> DK> database is too complex for the avarage person (search
-> DK> string) but is for those "blind professionals", not sure
-> DK> what he means, i haven't been professional since they fired
-> DK> me from the mophia!!

     Don't understand him, either.  Unfortunately, initiative cannot be
found in most large organizations except in very limited forms.  As an
example, I once spoke to someone at NLS when I found that Personal
Computing had died.  I suggested that they contract with the next
magazine's publisher to offer the magazine on floppy disk.  Though quite
pleasant, the gentleman on the other end just plain didn't have a clue as
to what I was talking about, and, although, "paperless braille" rang a
bell, this idea didn't.  I guess what's going on is that most of us with
 computers who do know what we're doing have given up on these channels and
gone our own way.  Unfortunately, this leaves the sheltered and the
single-minded braille types--not all braille readers, but those for whom
braille is the only medium of exchange--as the two most prominently visible
groups.  Those of us with paperless braille, and those of us with full
blown computers will both have to join together and lobby NLS for other
forms of electronic access besides tape and records until they no longer
view us as wayward step children.
nor paperless braille devices

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