If you were an American kid in the 1990s, chances are good that you may have been issued a little word processing machine by your school called an Alphasmart. These purpose-built machines created by an offshoot of Apple engineers were way cheaper than the average laptop at the time, and far more prepared to be handed over to the average child. The salesmen used to drop-kick them at trade shows to demonstrate their toughness.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/enthusiast-seeks-keycap-designer-for-alphasmart-neo/