The AlphaSmart is a lightweight, truly portable writing tool for authors, students, professionals, note-takers and people on the go. AlphaSmart weighs about 2 pounds. It measures 12 x 9 inches, and stands 1-5/8" high at the LED readout, or about 1" high at the keyboard. AlphaSmart runs on 3 "AA" batteries for about 300 hours. It easily interfaces with just about any Mac or PC via USB, infrared, serial or parallel connection. The 3000 model supports up to eight 25KB files of plain text (ASCII). File access is toggled by function keys, for a total of about 100 pages of single-spaced text.
Users can transfer text from their AlphaSmart to the host computer via a cable or IR connection by just hitting the SEND key. A waiting open page in a word processor application on the host computer receives the text. No special software is needed to move text from AlphaSmart to the host computer
