From: et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   Kelli Halliburton (kelli217@crosswinds.not.invalid) writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
      
   And I get the feeling the original poster was trying to evaluate that   
   32K of memory in current day terms.   
      
   I had 1K of memory in my first computer, that I got in 1979.  I had 8K of   
   memory in my 1981 computer, and the Radio Shack Color Computer I got in   
   1984 had 64K.  There weren't big operating systems to these computers,   
   and while the M100 used up ram for non-files, it had those basic   
   functions like the terminal program and the editor in ROM.  32K likely   
   wasn't limiting at the time.  I have an M100, bought it in 1985 if I   
   remember, and while I never used it as much as I anticipated, I don't   
   really recall the memory being limiting.  The small screen size seemed   
   to bother me more than running out of memory, and I think I never   
   used it as much as I thought I would when I bought it because of those   
   8 lines of 40 characters.   
      
     Michael   
      
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