[Blindtlk] slate and stylus, was, abacus

[Judy Jones]

Oh,  It would be so painful to part with my perkins.  But, yes, Chris and I 
still use slates and styluses, although not to the extent we did before we 
got our note takers.


Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:18 PM
Subject: [Blindtlk] slate and stylus, was, abacus


> Hi,
>
>
> I learned the abacus when I was in pre-school and it was a very useful 
> tool
> for me throughout school. How many of you still use the slate and stylus 
> to
> braille things? My wife and I have to use one now because we needed more
> money so we sold our braillenotes and bookports and now we only have 
> slates.
> We sold our braille writers too just to get through the last semester of
> college which we struggled through and failed anyway.
>
> Josh
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kasondra Payne" <Kassyp36 at msn.com>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] abacus?
>
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> I remember someone trying to teach me the abacus, but I didn't really 
>> take
>> to it.  Maybe, it would be fun to really learn.
>>
>> Kasondra Payne
>>
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