RE: libretto mininotebooks and jfw

[Krajczar Tech Center, Damon Fibraio]

I would say that the libretto is about the size of a braille N speak if you
add a screen on it. It came with win95, but I would imagine that they would
be switching to win98 soon. The unit is really really small, and it has no
ports on it. What I mean by this is that on its own, there are no ports
except for a headphone, maybe, and the slot to plug the floppy card into.
You get serial ports and the like by attaching what is called a port
replicator. You plug this into the port underneath the unit that feels
oddly enough lik the docking station plug on some portable computers. Then,
you have a monitor port, serial, parallel and mouse and keyboard ports. We
hooked the cd-rom drive up to a parallel port to install jfw. The mouse
control is on the monitor part and has a velcro type thing you roll your
thumb around and the two buttons around on the back of the monitor part. It
is hard to describe, but it is actually nice. The keyboard is small and
cramped and I haven't figured out its layout yet. The unit we had came with
a 166mhz pentium and either 16 or 32 mb ram, don't remember, and the hard
drive was reasonable if not skimpy by today's standards, but it was at
least 2GB. We had LP-Windows running with speech, the new version, with
flextalk running on it reasonably well, but I don't know how it will handle
hardware synths, considering the port replicator. If we ever get a screen
reader on it, that is something to investigate. It would be a great
solution as opposed to a bns if it worked.
At 04:35 PM 1/26/99 -0800, you wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> could you describe the dimensions of the Lebreto. Does it use standard
> Windows 95 or 98?
> Ted
> 
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>  Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 11:45 AM
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>  Subject: libretto mininotebooks and jfw
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> 
>  Here's something you may want to think about. At the tech center, we have a
>  Toshiba Libretto. For those of you who don't know, this is a palmtop
>  computer, really small, 166mha with either 16 or 32 mb ram. We are testing
>  them as alternatives to Braille N Speaks. This particular unit has an
>  external floppy drive that is accessed through what seems to be a pcmcia
>  type card. We hooked up an external parallel port CD-rom drive to install
>  Jaws on it, but the authorization will not transfer from the floppy. I have
>  the theory that it is due to the special nature of the floppy interface and
>  JFW's inability to work with such a specialized interface. Has anybody
>  tried this on their own? What about portable computers that have external
>  floppy drives? I believe that this combo won't work if this is the case,
>  but maybe one of you had better luck and can tell me what this is
>  all about.
> 
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>  Damon Fibraio, Associate for Technical Support, De Witt and Associates
>  Norma F. Krajczar Technology, research and developement center
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Damon Fibraio, Associate for Technical Support, De Witt and Associates
Norma F. Krajczar Technology, research and developement center
130 Livingston Ave. New Brunswick, NJ 08901, 732-937-6394
email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw