Well tom while true of laptops I do know that desktops in general at
least the ones up to 2011 would have the required ports they have
only recently gone full usb.
There is still a moniter port on my laptop and I know that the new
systems I got one from 2011 and the other from 2014 still have paralel ports.
But yeah its all usb.
there is probably a paralel to usb converter somewhere wouldn't surprise me.
I mean there is serial to usb, vga moniter to usb, I know for a fact
there is old style vhs tape recorder to usb because I have one.
even audio to usb.
In short there are as many converters as there are usb ports in a computer.
Weather the software is accessable and not in chinese is another
thing you can buy bog standard converters for vhs I know for a fact
for a few bucks the software is either old or cracked or old and
cracked but point is you can buy stuff.
There are pro stuff to if you search so there is probably a way.
I am not sure how easy it is to wrig up a simple no frills one, but
when my power cord on one of our pcs broke my dad was able to hook up
a length of headphone wire and a few headphone plugs in place of the
broken cord and although it ran a bit hot at the ends it did work.
Ofcause this was back just before 2000 and now with everything so
secured like the iphone chargers you can't just put any wrigged cord in.
An old unit though as long as you were prepaired to configure it who knows.
There is probably something like com0com for a paralel port or something.
Though a good converter will automatically convert for you.
I am not sure about software.
Though to be honest if were meaning pamphlets for various things I'd
go the electronic rout, I am not sure how to make e braille but its
all the rage.
Audio mp3 daisy even standard cds.
You could still buy braillers to.
Finally I know for a fact that some organisations can hire out their
units for online transfer of info via mail but you'd still have togo
to the physical location to pick it up.
I have a few old perkins units which I have not used ever since I got
back into computers in 1995 so I have no idea if they work or not.
At 03:00 a.m. 20/06/2015, you wrote:
Hi John,
Thanks. If we were to decide to go forward with this that old embosser
and your stock of paper could prove useful. That is considering we can
get that old thing going. That could be somewhat problematic these
days.
I happen to have an old embosser as well, a Braille Blazer circa 1992
or so, but have not been able to use it for several years because I
don't have any computers I can hook it up to. Both serial ports and
parallel ports are a thing of the past, and while I might be able to
use a serial to USB adapter or something I really had no use for the
thing until now. I should drag the thing out of storage and see if I
can get it working.
In any case there is probably a way to rig one of those old embossers
to do the job if we had to. So that's at least a start in the right
direction.
Cheers!
On 6/19/15, john <jpcarnemo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an old embosser (it uses a parallel port!), the software to match,
> and more paper than I could even try to shake a stick at. If we wanted to
> get serious about making this kind of a pamphlet, I could probably do that
> part without to much trouble (I suspect Google would be able to answer all
> my questions on how to make the thing go).
> I don't have any real contacts within blindness organizations (and know
> nothing about shipping outside of the U.S), but I can do the brailing, and
> then cheer at the (slightly) greater amount of storage space I've got.
>
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