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This is a device with a normal keyboard and a screen that is three times wider than a normal PALM screen. It runs PalmOS and is intended as a writing tool although it can run any Palm software. It can be used with the widescreen and keyboard or turned sideways and used as a Palm with a 3 times bigger screen.
This is a device with a normal keyboard and a screen that is three times wider than a normal PALM screen. It runs PalmOS and is intended as a writing tool although it can run any Palm software. It can be used with the widescreen and keyboard or turned sideways and used as a Palm with a 3 times bigger screen.

Since it is a PalmOS device, it can accept handwriting input on the wide screen strip.

* The Wikipedia article is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart here]
* Here is the [http://www.alphasmart.com/products/dana.html product page] for the device.
* Here is a [http://www.pencomputing.com/palm/Pen47/dana.html review with photos] from when the device first became available in 2002.

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Latest revision as of 18:53, 14 November 2008

This is a device with a normal keyboard and a screen that is three times wider than a normal PALM screen. It runs PalmOS and is intended as a writing tool although it can run any Palm software. It can be used with the widescreen and keyboard or turned sideways and used as a Palm with a 3 times bigger screen.

Since it is a PalmOS device, it can accept handwriting input on the wide screen strip.