Alphasmart Alpha Smart 3000 Word Processing Computer Mac PC

I have a strange affinity towards these old devices and this one caught my eye rather quickly this here is an alpha Smart 3000 and I saw it sitting on the shelf at the thrift store and I wasn't a hundred percent sure what it was but I was pretty sure it's a word processor and what's weird about it is that his word processor made in a time when word processors were in all actuality completely unnecessary this model came out in 2001 or 2002 ters are pretty cheap laptops were cheap enough I think I got a laptop for about eleven hundred bucks at that point and the fact that people would still buy something to just do word processing kind of was interesting so whilst the fact that they seem to be pretty good build quality and even had PC and Mac keys on it I did get carry us to go look and see if I could find the website for alpha smart on the internet wayback machine web archive and I did f