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This braille electronic note-taker is called a PAC Mate. And what I
usually do on the PAC Mate is homework and classwork and usually

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doing, like, notes when I'm in class. The way it's set up is kind of
like a laptop, really, with a braille screen.  And I can get on the

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Internet and save books and listen to books on here. I can do, like,
if a teacher, if I wasn't at school a certain day and I have some

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work to do, my teacher can email to my...I can download to my PAC
Mate, and I can print it out and turn it in. It does a certain

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amount of things, and I can open a file.

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[Pac Mate speaks as Quinn moves through its menus.]

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And the screen is...it shows up in braille, and I it shows up, like,
by line and sentences. And, like, if I'm reading, I can down-arrow

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to go to the next line, or I can use the little wheel to read each
line, or if I didn't want to do either I could just have it...I can

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listen to it and it would...the braille would follow along with the
computer as it talks. This is live.

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[Pac Mate speaks.]

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So I guess I'll give a demonstration on it.

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[Pac Mate speaks.]

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So as it's reading, the braille is following along, and that's how I
do documents that are sent to me. Another way I can get documents is

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if I'm in class and, you know, I miss something, like if I didn't
quite understand something, and I wanted the teacher to send me some

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examples, like if she wrote down a few examples, and I can use a
regular thumb-drive and sync it to my PAC Mate. Plug it into the

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back of here, and I can receive it.  I can receive documents that
way. I guess that's it.