Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Using a protable with a Mac Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 09:42:37 GMT References: <1990Sep22.161616.23028@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1990Sep23.032119.1767@ctr.columbia.edu> <1991Feb21.152901.22489@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <2105@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: rush@mnementh.metaphor.com's message of 5 Mar 91 02:35:43 GMT In article <2105@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> rush@mnementh.metaphor.com (Ed Rush) writes: I looked into the Radio Shack "notebook" but found that it is limited to about 32KB RAM when you buy it and 128KB at maximum expansion. At 4 to 5KB per printed page, that just wasn't It's more like 2K when you don't have any formatting and such, isn't it? (Which is *definitely* going to be the case on one of those thingies. :-) (250 words/page)*(5 chars/word + 1 space/word)=1500 bytes/page. Your mileage may vary. (This is double-spaced.) Or, of course, you could wait for Big Blue to come out with their implementation of GO's system. (What's it called--PencilPoint? Think that's it. It's basically a smart notebook--see a recent Byte. Looks *very* nice.) Shouldn't cost more than about 10-15 times as much. :-) -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/