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The year’s hottest word processor! (The year is 1990.)

My retro writing machine collection just got a fun new entry: the Smith-Corona PWP 7000LT, which The New York Times has called “a reasonable alternative to portable computers for people who are not comfortable with more powerful machines.” Somewhat incredibly, it actually works.

A beige word processor that looks like a bulky 1980s laptop with the label Smith-Corona PWP 7000LT.
Not pictured: Smith-Corona’s proprietary 3-inch floppy disk. Pretty sure I am never getting anything I write off this.
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