<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><div><b>From:</b> Rachel <<a href="mailto:rachel720@mindspring.com">rachel720@MINDSPRING.COM</a>><br><b>Date:</b> June 18, 2018 at 4:07:09 PM CDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:PBD-L@listserv.icors.org">PBD-L@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Fwd: [leadership] Seeking home for Braille Window Braille display</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> For users of paperless braille displays <<a href="mailto:PBD-L@listserv.icors.org">PBD-L@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG</a>><br><br></div><div><span>Greetings, everyone.</span><br><span></span><br><span>My office will be relocated this summer and my supervisor wants</span><br><span>me to send</span><br><span>a nearly 20-year-old Braille display to surplus, which means it</span><br><span>will be</span><br><span>most likely discarded. It is an 80-cell Braille Window from</span><br><span>HumanWare,</span><br><span>which worked well for me with JAWS from 1999 until 2013 when I</span><br><span>was given a</span><br><span>64-bit computer. I offered it to our disability support office,</span><br><span>but we</span><br><span>have no other Braille users on campus.</span><br><span></span><br><span>This machine has three major drawbacks:</span><br><span>It works only with 32-bit computers.</span><br><span>It connects through serial/parallel ports rather than USB or</span><br><span>bluetooth.</span><br><span>It is huge, compared to the newer slimmer displays.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Should I discard this as an anachronism, or do any of you have</span><br><span>ideas where</span><br><span>it might be useful?</span><br><span>It's so hard to think of throwing away a machine that still</span><br><span>reports:</span><br><span>braille display on"</span><br><span>when I turn on the power.</span><br><span>I still have the Braille user guide, although I think there was</span><br><span>also a CD</span><br><span>that I don't have readily available.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.</span><br><span>Beverly Wieland</span><br><span><a href="mailto:bwieland@udel.edu">bwieland@udel.edu</a></span><br><span>(302) 743-4044</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>leadership mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:leadership@acblists.org">leadership@acblists.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.acblists.org/mailman/listinfo/leadership">http://www.acblists.org/mailman/listinfo/leadership</a></span><br></div></body></html>