< My Wife Gave Me an AlphaSmart 3000 for Christmas

~pink2ds

The AlphaSmart 3000 uses rubber dome switches rather than mechanical switches of any brand or color.

In the eighties, most keyboards (as far as I know) used mechanical, in the 90s most used rubber domes—it was awful. These days, the only reason someone would use a non-laptop–style keyboard is because they specifically want mechanical switches.

So what in the 90s pretty much every keyboard used—rubber domes—is now deader than punk (which died on January 25, 1977).

I hope you enjoy your AS3000 in spite of the keyboard♥

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~starbreaker wrote:

I've been getting a fair amount of use out of it. Once I get going with a piece, I tend to just keep banging away until I've seen it through.

I've also gotten myself a little Mibao M500 audio player so I can rock out while I write without having to keep my phone handy. It works as a USB mass storage device and its internal storage is formatted as FAT32 so it's pretty easy to transfer music over.