[lproven]

Not really. You can't edit.

I don't write on paper because, as someone who's been reading and writing for half a century now, I learned to write for a living on devices where I could edit the text as I go.

And it's so much better than pen and paper, where every mistake is permanent.

I don't want to hand write on my computer. Draw, yes, but not scribble. I want a keyboard and editing: cursor keys, delete in 2 directions, copy and paste.

Freewrite does not do that. It's a typewriter, but digital.

[detritus]

Well blow me, I had no idea it was thusly limited. What a weird decision!

[lproven]

I only found out myself in the owners' group on Facebook.

No cursor keys should have been a giveaway. Later hardware revisions can run a later ROM which adds cursor control using alpha keys, in a way that by the sound of it reminds me of WordStar or Vi in the 1970s.