A couple of weeks ago Anna and I saw a fellow in a cafe in Noe Valley using one of these strange little word processors. He was typing up a storm on its little screen: [Picture of an Alphasmart 2000]
It reminded me of the Apple eMate I had several years ago -- well gee, a long time ago, like 12 years ago. I had thought it would be a good portable writing tool but it had a tiny memory so it wasn't very useful, and I soon sold it on Craigslist.
The pictures in that post do not do justice as to how beautiful it was. It was a true clamshell design made of a translucent dark green plastic. Here's a Business Week article on the thing's design, from 1997. If only its innards had been up to snuff to the design of the shell!
This picture is better -- you can see the semi-transparency of the case.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
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2 things -- I remember that clamshell thing! You had it with you once when we were hanging out together in the lobby of the Hyatt in NYC -- many years ago.
also
the Alphasmart is very popular with romance novelists, especially those who have to turn out 5 novels a year. It keeps them away from the distractions of email & the Internet.
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