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< My Wife Gave Me an AlphaSmart 3000 for Christmas

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.