<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">Hi: I have been providing some tech help for a blind friend, although I'm sighted myself. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">Andre has for twenty years run a DOS system using the Powerbraille80 display. He </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;"> has now found himself running out of dial-up options, and needs to move on to something </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">with a standard ethernet connection to a fiber modem.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">He and I and a third friend with some IT experience have been trying to get him connected,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;"> but have had no luck with various DOS programs and NIC hardware. Right now, he has </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">some connectivity with a Windows 7 machine running a trial copy of Dolphin. We have </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">tried brltty on that Windows machine, but were unable to get it to work. I'm a long time </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">Linux user, and would frankly love to get him on that platform. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">This leads us to three questions:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">1.) Are there any brltty users in the Chicago area, or for that matter, somewhere in the US </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">that Andre might call by phone to chat with about their experience?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">2.) Does brltty have screen reading capability, or is it primarily a braille display driver that needs other </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">software for the reading function?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">3.) Do we need an additional driver for the Powerbraille80 display, or ??</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: FreeSans,sans-serif;">Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 100%;"><br></p></div></div></body></html>