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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Dale Leavens wrote: > Why in the name of all things do they make stuff with non-customer > serviceable battery packs. The Victors did this and one or two others, the > Optacon was a wonderful example, a device one came to depend on and you have > to ship it away for days and risk loss and all that. > > Would people accept having to send their glasses away for a week to have them > serviced or their hearing aides? > > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Fowle > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:02 PM > Subject: Re: making things talk Re: [BlindHandyMan] New Tool Review > > > Lenny, > Now-a-days the microcontroller would have the eprom built in and they can > "Code protect" the internal memory so you can't copy it. > > Yep, whenever I seem "no user serviceable parts inside," it makes my fingers > itch for tools! > > Like the upcomming talking book digital players from NLS are gonna be > great except they have a non user serviceable battery pack! Humbug! > > Tom > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >