word processing

Those alphasmart devices look great! Sadly, as usual, they cost twice as much in the UK as they do in the US. £200-300 is pricey. Still, this is really moving in the right direction. I've always wanted a simple, cheap, and rugged device that would do word processing, check email. and some very basic surfing. In volume, I bet they could get the price down to £100. You'll need a usb storage device to be sure you save our work, but those are cheap and can be used for many purposes. The problem is that £350 for one of those devices, versus say £600 for a full laptop, does not make such a good comparison. If you could buy one in the US, however, it would be half that much or less.

wordprocessor...you may as well use a quill!

i cant spell

I can. Honestly! *Looks like the med's are working*

Hiya John!!

i didnt like school never learnt nothing i only liked art dance and drama cos i when to a performing arts school we had our own drama studio

Spelling and grammar isn't a prerequisite (sp?) for being a writer! That's what editor's are for...so don't worry about it Megan. (I'm sure you don't anyways)

i dont dosnt stop me writing i wrote book called she

good...I'm glad it didn't stop you. My grammar is awful...I should have said "spelling and grannar aren't a prerequisite..." For me a lot of it is laziness and not checking!

me good at art some one told me how to draw and i said "go tizzle coz i got me own ideas" and then i said that to my english teacher

Hi Jude. The crazed Nuns in the bumper cars made me chuckle. Megan. I didn't let spelling and grammar stop me from achieving anything I set my mind to. Spelling dov not make the Writer. Creativity improves with Dyslexia. Trust me, I know something about this one. Now lets see any one argue that one. hehe.

nope i agree with you!!

Yeah, Brother still make them. I used to use one. You could probably get one very cheap 2nd hand on ebay, or anywhere. But why a word processor? The Brother ones are pretty bulky and not cheap new. Why not a 2nd hand laptop? Or if you want it to take to work how about a PDA? You can buy keyboards for them and they are Word compatible. If you want, eventually, to send stuff off it will need to be backed up on a disc somehow, and so you would need Word. Brother have conversion software but it's a pain. I hand write everything these days though. Have you tried that? It slows you down and makes you think about it more.

Oh, I missed the point I think. ha ha. You ONLY have a computer at work. Well then, get a second hand computer. Go to Oxfam. Or Eco places do reconditioned ones. I wouldn't bother with a word processor.

We can get you a good reconditioned computer for £125 with no programmes on it. Email me if you are interested!

No I was serious about the word processor thing Drew - at work I am supposed to be 'working' and really don't have time to write my own stuff. My new job is in Colchester - I live in Norwich, and will be living in Colchester 4 nights a week in b&b. I need something I can take with me on the train without killing myself. So I would need something transportable and quite cheap (a second hand laptop Drew would be my dream, but I don't think I have enough money) Hand writing is good - I do half my writing by hand, but sometimes, when I am in the zone, I have to type (I type about 100 words per minute and it is great for sort of going off into another world).

I grew up in Colchester - where are you working? I paid £250 for my laptop, 2nd hand. It has a DVD and other fancy things. I imagine, if you only wanted one for word processing it would be cheaper. Brother word processors aren't the kind of thing you would want to lug around.

I'll get a price for a second hand, reconditioned laptop for you. Our source is excellent - and it provides jobs for the previously 'unemployable' - so it's win/win.

I'm working at an office in the Hythe at a magazine publishing company. I went to the University of Essex for my first degree and lived all over the town for about 5 years (including Wivenhoe and the Greenstead Estate). What about you? I'll look into laptops. I have always been far to broke to own one.

I used to have a word processor machine and it was wonderful...in 1989. It held about 2 pages of typed text. The best part was the quality of the printing--wonderful. However, it was the size of a regular typewriter, though not nearly has heavy, it was still heavy. I've seen them in shops, but I think they are mostly for people who have to type multipart forms, whihc can't be done via computer. Ebay sounds like a good bet, but I agree a cheap used laptop is the best idea.

My parents ran a pub called the King Cole, which was on the Ipswich Road. Then I lived off the Mersey Road and then finally at Fordham Heath. But I used to go out to the Hole in the Wall pub, the Dickens, and St Marys Arts Centre - I met my first boyfriend in the graveyard. He was deaf in one ear and could hear me only on one side. Actually he wasn't really a boyfriend but....

The King Cole is still there. The Hole in the Wall was my favourite drinking ground as a student and I kissed my now boyfriend for the first time in the graveyard about 5 years ago. Where abouts are you now?

Leicester.

Excellent for cheese sauce.

Is Colchester the necrophilia capital of Britain?? This thread reads like the Thriller video.

Take a look at these: http://www1.alphasmart.com/ Quite a number of writers from www.nanowrimo.org swear by them, and they're a lot cheaper than a laptop if you're only going to be using it for writing. -Elaine.