Collaborate Disseminate
If you were an American kid in the 1990s, chances are good that you may have been issued a little word processing machine by your school called an Alphasmart. These …read more Continue reading Enthusiast Seeks Keycap Designer for Alphasmart NEO
Get ready for vintage computing aplenty in [David Given]’s project to port EmuTOS to the AlphaSmart Dana. He’s got it all on video, too. All 38 hours of it over …read more Continue reading See The ATARI GEM Desktop Running On A Portable Word Processor… Thing
The AlphaSmart NEO and NEO2 are great little word processors for distraction-free writing anywhere you want to go, but they lack the backlight of the later Dana model. Well, [starboyk] has done what many thought impossible and added a backlight to a NEO2. Experience gained from a ton of console …read more
Continue reading Fully Backlit AlphaSmart NEO2 Lights Up the Night
History will always have its in-between technologies — that stuff that tides us over while the Next Big and Lasting Thing is getting the kinks worked out of it. These kinds of devices often do one thing and do it pretty well. Remember zip drives? Yeah you do. Still have …read more
Continue reading AlphaSmart Neo Teardown: This is the Way to Write Without Distractions