ot: dec-express?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
is that test prior to loading any software or connecting the unit to 
anything but the power cord?
not so much dead on arrival because in one case it was dead, and I 
returned it with the person telling me it worked fine for them, so I am 
confused too grin.
Karen

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Erik Heil wrote:

> Hi their.  I have a latter Dectalk Express unit and as part of its power
> on procedures, it does indeed do a test to verify the  status of all
> onboard components.  This does include a checksum test of its firmware.
> I'm a bit confused as to what you're asking though.  have you gotten units
> which are dead on arrival?
>
> --Erik
>
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:03:56 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Subject: ot: dec-express?
>>
>> Hi all,
>> does anyone know if the later dec-express units no longer have the self test
>> built in?
>> I have gotten a couple from those who say they were working, only to find that
>> this factor is missing.
>> it happens too often for all of these folks to be wrong, but usually they were
>> running them in windows only, which might have made a difference, or with
>> products that might have bypassed the DEC-talk driver stuff for whatever
>> reason?
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Alex Snow wrote:
>>
>>> What I usually do is push the all option, then go through the list of
>>> packages and set the stuff I don't want to uninstall.
>>> On Thu, Oct 02,
>>> 2008 at 12:19:42PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Jerry Matheny wrote:
>>>>> I use Cygwin just fine in Windows with speech. You just use your screen
>>>>> reader's virtual mouse keys to move to the all item and to the left of
>>>>> it
>>>>> there's a graphic that you click and it will change all the packages
>>>>> status to install. Then just go to next button and off it will go.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, but that assumes you want to install all the packages.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
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