Dreamwriter IT lives on

I just discovered these things, and I bought one out of fascination and a need to replace my creaky 1994 vintage Winbook with something else for word processing and casual internet use. For $21.03 on Ebay, this seemed to be the ticket!

I do need two things, though.

First, can anyone tell me what the "clicking device" keys are on the keyboard so that I can right click and left click while using the touchpad? I'm thinking it may be th F1 and F2 keys because of their location right by the touchpad but I have not been able to make them work. The notebook works great with a plugged-in PS2 mouse, but that's not what I want to do.

Second, does anyone know where I can get a download or a photocopy of the manual for a Dreamwriter IT?

Thanks!
Graham

I think you can do what every CE device does, Alt + tap (i know there's no touchscreen, so in this case it'll be Alt + Click).

Hope this helps

Under Windows CE a 'right click' is an ALT + Tap/Click.

I do not have any manuals or specific downloads for the DW in the library, sorry. If you find something, please send it along and I'll get it added.

There is a downloadable manual from this site, but you have to register.
http://www.systemgroup.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=246

I picked one up for 7 a few months ago. I saw, on Ebay, a cart and 30 or so of the units that was at 300 plus last I saw it

Not sure what I am going to do with it, but it worked after replacing a bad cell in the battery.

They are just fun to play with.

Thanks!
This is my first CE device, and I did NOT know that!

So, what's a left click?

Thanks so much!

Graham (who obviously has a huge amount to learn about these quirkly but delightful machines!)

(Sorry! I forgot to quote you in my reply, which is posted below. I have not dealt with CE machines before, so I didn't know about the ALT-Touch for right click. What's left click?)
Thanks
Graham

Seems to be a manual for a "Dreamwriter" software package of some kind that generates financial reports. Did you find something different there?
Thanks!

Well, thanks to the kind advice I got here, I am maneuvering around with the "right click" windows CE trick, and also found a tutorial with the Windows CE commands, which is useful.

For those of you who are fooling with one of these, I also am now able to use the double-tap on the touchpad as "left click," and it seems to work pretty well!

Yay!

Now, if I could just figure out how to tilt the screen a little so I can see it while the thing is in my lap! It was built for 8 year olds, not someone 50 years older!

By the way, has anyone adapted a commonly available 7.2 v RC battery for this? I've noticed that they have just two leads- red and green, and not the four that come out of the battery (dead) that came with this. I'm assuming that the three black leads are all the (-) side of the batteries and the (+ is the positive, but I don't want to do something unfortunate and fry my $21.03 wonder!

Thanks!
Graham