By Teresa Yea

I have 2 Alphasmart Neos:

-The mint Alphasmart I bought in 2009 at full price ($230) and it has never crashed on me, except this year… and no, I wasn’t able to recover the file. Now I upload everything by the end of the day.

-The white Alphasmart I bought on eBay for $17 for the sole reason of taking it apart to paint it. I didn’t want to destroy the original Alphasmart in case I couldn’t put it back together again.

-I would totally paint the keys if I could except they ...