As to a checkbook program, I would require some security or encryption for files before I leave anything like that on any machine. Not that I think my checking habbits are that interesting, but they're simply nobody else's business.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Ellen Earls Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:45 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] The article: I had my first one in '61 and my Father threw it out. Strictly by accident. It was to go back to Howe Press to be cleaned and worked on so it was boxed up and he thought it was part of the christmas boxes we used to get from his business associates in England so I got my present one in '74. I am feeling quite old especially after sitting for almost an hour listening to the Braille Note deciding when it is or was going to empty 160 e-mails which 159 of which were spam from the one.net account. I tell you the next thing this machine needs is a faster processor. And while that was going on I was paying bills and gumming up the woiks all over the place it looks like because the credit card company got a bit upset with me for charging my gas bill but I straightened it out so everything is fine. This brings up a question. Why on earth have none of these blindness companies put a checkbook program in their windows ce machines? To me that isright up there with word processing. Mary Ellen Earls Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Garrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: re: [Braillenote] The article: > Hey, Mary Ellen! I'm only 46, and definitely not a goat! I'm more like > a > large cat with a guide dog! I'm curious about everything, and love being > that way. <big grin> You know, I had my first Perkins brailler in 1969, > and I still have one. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:41:40 -0800 >>Subject: [Braillenote] The article: > >>You know, I don't know what to make of this article. >>Yes the reporter was an idiot there is no doubt about it and the >>article >>was >>as badly written as any nineteenth century novel about the blind I have >>ever >>seen but think about this. Not a single one of us on this list would have >>ever heard of oneanother unless we belonged to ACB or NFB or went to >>school >>or a guide dog center or a rehab center were it not for this truly >>marvelous >>equipment. >>You young people have no clue about what how us old goats got our >>education >>and what we did not have. >>I wake up every morning and thank my Heavenly Father that I can now >>download >>a book into the Braille Note. >>I can remember when the only thing we had to use as first graderswere Haul >>Braillers and then one day Mr. Eugeen Stephens head of special Education >>for >>our schools came in and presented Miss Mergentheimer with one Brand New >>Perkins Brailler. Miss Mergentheimer treated that machine like gold. There >>was a part of the classroom where we were not allowed to go as she said >>this >>was the shelf for her "pretties." On that shelf was a spice wrack with >>spices to develop sense of smell and various objects for conceptualization >>and on the very end sat that perkins Braille Writer and if we got an A. on >>that spelling test we got to do our next lesson on the Perkins. >>My point is, yes 99% of the sighted world are idiots and have this archaic >>idea that if they lost their sight they wouldn't be able to cope and some >>wouldn't. So yes indeed these machines are most definitely miracles and >>the >>more sophistocated they become the more miraculous they will continue to >>be. >>Mary Ellen Earls >>Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. > > > >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >>From there, I went to a Braille n Speak, to a Type n Speak, to a Type >>Lite, and now to a BrailleNote. Each piece of equipment was more fabulous >>and wonderful than the last. So what's next in the industry? I'm ready, >>are you? > > I hope I never lose my appreciation for the different pieces of > equipment > as they come along for they are what makes this world a little more easy > to get along in and work in. The younger generation cannot fully > understand where we are coming from being as they have had these things > from early childhood, unlike us. Though, in the future, they will be able > to say the same thing to the kids of the future. > > Diane Garrett/Leader Daisy > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (918) 664-5731 > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
