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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just bought a couple of E2 emailers in the Post
Office for £12.99 each.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have read most of the archive posts from the last
year and concluded that there is now a monitor program for the E2, and
there has been some success in running C on the ARM 7.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I should like to enquire whether there has been any
further work done on hi-jacking the software upgrade process, or diverting the
emailer to call another server?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any update infor on E2 activities would be
appreciated - or should I go to Currys and buy an E3 ? ;-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My interests in the E2 is to make a low cost
platform suitable for the deaf-blind to communicate with one another, a sort of
one to one chat keypad, with very large character fonts to suit the
partially sighted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With hour long evening and weekend calls on
BT either free or 5.5p you could do a lot of one to one texting
in an hour - very cheaply.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have also been looking at alternative keypads for
deaf-blind use, as qwerty can be a bit difficult, and resurrected the old 5 key
"Microwriter" chord keypad, with a fair degree of success</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I like the idea from the archives about putting an
E3 in a plain box and making it available as a cheap platform for kids
etc. There was a project in India to do a sub-$100 laptop for school
kids.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The low power requirements of the E2 of about 7
watts makes it a fraction of the power of a laptop - and the screen backlighting
makes it possible to type messages with the lights out - some kids might
find that useful!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken Boak</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>