OLD DAYS

[Alex Snow]

I used bex with a versipoint that sounded like a machine gun and barely
crancked out 30 chars per sec.  I really didn't use it very much, it was
mostely my braillest.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: OLD DAYS


> If you can understand the Braille 'N Speak, you can understand the Echo.
> At least to me, they sound very similar.
>
> Yes, I remember BEX.  It had those cryptic commands like " $$c " to center
> text.  You absolutely had to put the spaces around them or they wouldn't
> work.  I used it with an embosser called an Ohtsuki.  Obviously made in
> Japan.  It was a really slow embosser that could produce both Braille and
> print, but neither was very sharp.  The Braille felt like the paper had
> been stepped on, and everybody said that the print was very faint like it
> needed a new ribbon even when it had a brand new one.  It wasn't a ribbon,
> but a little rubber wheel and it had holes at the end of each page to
> detect the end of the page.  Weird!
>
> I even used a shell account from an Apple IIGS and that was my first
> experience with Pine.  That's why I still use Pine even though some say
> Mutt is better.  It's hard to change when you've been using Pine that
> long.
>
>
>
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