From: kelli217@crosswinds.not.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 02 May 2006 16:34:21 -0500, R Flowers wrote:   
   > "Jim Leonard"  wrote in message   
   > news:1146604698.516668.245320@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...   
   >> I hope this doesn't seem like a troll, but the Model 100/102/200 always   
   >> seemed like a majorly cool thing to get until I read about the RAM   
   >> limitations.  32K of RAM isn't enough to do basic word processing, so   
   >> what were these things used for in the field?  I type more than 32K at a   
   >> single sitting so I can't imagine myself using one for any serious   
   >> writing, yet I heard journalists used them...?  Can anyone shed some   
   >> light on the subject?   
   >   
   > The journalists you've heard about were filing stories from the field,   
   > over the built-in 300 baud modem (which was a big deal, I gather, back in   
   > the day). I'm willing to bet these stories were rather short, and not the   
   > lengthy magazine-type articles.   
      
   Also, in many cases, journalists wouldn't necessarily write in the TEXT   
   application, but would hook to the newspaper's online text processor   
   system and compose over the phone. And a few carried around cassette decks   
   as well, which served the dual purpose of recording quotes from subjects,   
   and serving as a data drive to free up RAM. In later years, the cassette   
   drive was replaced by the Portable Disk Drive.   
      
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