Grant.Downey@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (01/23/91)
Index Number: 13129
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I agree with you Al you are right on about the Romeo Brailers
Ihad to send back two out of four that I've had experience with
and after some persuasive talking the sent me a replacement and
have never had a problem since. I'm having the same problem
with one of my Vert Speech boards. No matter what I do, set,
push or what jumper I change that board locks up the computer
and it won't even boot. Backit goes on Wednesday and I'll stay
on them til I get a new one. Grant
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Internet: Grant.Downey@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.orgAl.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Al Hoffman) (01/23/91)
Index Number: 13141
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Hi Grant & anybody else interested:
The Romeo RB-40 is a good, solid machine for personal brailling. I
use one at work, and the only problem I have is static electricity
building up as paper rubs along the paper-path, and it locking up
occasionally. This problem is a pain, but when I solve it, the rest of
the machine is great. Its the easiest machine of its type to setup and
operate--in comparison to the TSI braillers the configurations for the
Romeo are a breeze. I hate the TSI configuration method, its just
stupid.
Has anybody else had the static problem? I would appreciate any
suggestions to this, because at times this problem almost outweighs the
usefullness of the brailler!
Romeo Braillers are sort of like cars, you can get a lemon, if that
happens, tell them to exchange the entire machine right away, no fixes,
because some of the Romeos just won't work well ever, and others will
work fine for ever. I have used five or six of these machines and think
I have a pretty good handle on the reliability of them, and the above
pretty well sums it up.
Oh, does anybody have the Tiff file format specifications? I want
to finally write a graphics brailling program for the Romeo, and can't
find the format specs. It would be a great program for looking at
scanned images.
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Internet: Al.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.orgAl.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Al Hoffman) (01/23/91)
Index Number: 13161
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About the Romeo:
No, I don't waste a sheet oof paper between print jobs, thats only
the form-feed function, but is that really significant anyway? If you
use print, it will put the formfeed at end of file, other print programs
will also do it, but thats definitely not a Romeo function. Sure, if
you want to rip the page off, and then do another print job you will
need one page for the tractor, but I guess this never even occurred to
me as a problem, I like an extra page at end of file for a cover.
I don't like TSI's configuration method, its just not as simple as
the Romeo, and its definitely not intuitive at all. I believe that the
VersaPoints we have are the latest models, we have several around our
agency, and they usually have the newer ones. Maybe I am wrong on this
point, but its unlikely.
Hmmm elaboration on the configuration thing is something I will
have to do more work on. I simply found the TSI configuration method
irritating, even though there was one option I saw that is not on the
Romeo, which is the Strobe setting for parallel input operation.
You are correct about the graphics and the bar. But, you can let
the machine do text with the bar in graphics position. Its just slow.
Concerning portability I'd take a romeo any day, but then I don't
intend to take my brailler anywhere so thats not a primary concern for
me. I wonder just how many people it actually is a big concern for?
Actually I like my LED120 more than either machine. after a bit of
preparation on my part it works great, and at $600 I can't even bother
to comare!
Later. If you have experience with the Index, lets hear it, sounds
interesting--maybe we'll see if we can get a demo sent out for a month
or two from Humanware and if so, I'll write up a big msg with some info.
Later.
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