Re: 9-pin connection

[Buddy Brannan]

For those who don't know, the Road Runner is the immediate predecessor  
(designed by the same people under a different company name) to the  
Book Courier. In fact, it even uses the same Doubletalk speech chip.  
Unlike the Book Courier, however, the Road Runner only groks plain  
text, and, moreover, has only its own transfer software written for it.

As for replacements should the need ever arise, there is, of course,  
the aforementioned Book Courier, but the most popular option currently  
is Humanware's Victor Reader Stream. Greg on this list has even  
written Mac software for this.