Linux on access technology

Zachary Kline zkline at speedpost.net
Wed May 25 01:52:13 EDT 2016


This is bringing back memories. I miss my BNS. :) 
> On May 24, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> 
> Actually, models made after I believe Sept. 1995 had a flashrom board
> for upgrading the firmware by yourself, which I did quite a few
> times. Units made sometime since the Summer of 1996 had superflash,
> which also held firmware and were user upgradable. These were both
> optional upgrades for the bns640, but were  standard on the
> bns2000. I'm not sure how that corresponds to the braille lite models. The
> basic interpreter manual for the units said the speech chip is a
> si263, but that's all I know on that. Supposedly this is the same
> speech chip as used in the accent synthesizer.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 



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