thrush,
you can use the on-screen keyboard (press the pen on the letters) or it does handwriting recognition/voice recognition etc.
but mostly...
it has a detachable fold out keyboard:
[img:::c748683be4]http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1208/hp101.jpg[/img:c748683be4]
i'm using a tc1100 at the moment actually