building notebook?

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Mon Aug 31 20:57:45 UTC 2009


I ended up having a friend chop the monitor off my laptop. I have a laptop 
running linux & speakup. It's just a 150 Mhz processor with 54 Mb of RAM. 
But it works well. It's like 100 years old.

So now it's also lean & mean.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: building notebook?


>A colleague and I at the Meraka Institute at the CSIR in South Africa are
> building this notetaker.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, John G. Heim wrote:
>
>> This is interesting but I'm not sure what you mean.  Who is working on
>> building a linux notetaker?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" 
>> <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:29 AM
>> Subject: Re: building notebook?
>>
>>
>> > We  are bussy/almost done with a notetaker for the blind, based on
>> > linux/speakup/command-line apps with a menu.
>> > Some of our prototypes were built from scratch.  I am not sure if this 
>> > was
>> > what you had in mind?
>> > Regards, Willem
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, John G. Heim wrote:
>> >
>> > > Has anyone here ever built a notebook computer?
>> > >
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