Portable Word Processors

Time to fess up. I used to own a portable word processor.  It was a behemoth and it looked like this. 

Look at those graphics! Hope you like green, cause that's all there was. And yes, this word processor was as heavy as it looked.
Imagine my surprise when I came across portable word processors in our reading. I thought these things were long forgotten relics of our past. With the advent of the laptop, I didn't think there was a need for word processors until I realized that you have to take into consideration the cost factor. So here they are still in use although they look much different and are of course adapted to suit the needs of students with limited fine motor skills, reading and writing limitations and even for those who have poor penmanship.
Modern day word processors like the very popular AlphaSmart look like this.

  And they're much, much lighter!

Here's an AlphaSmart Neo in action!