On Fri, 22 May 2020 18:45:42 +0100, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

>You know, this takes me right back.  I don't think I've cared very much
>about file size of individual documents since the days of my Amiga!  (It
>was of course an ever present concern on my Commodore 64 and I don't recall
>if I word processed *much* on my ZX81 but I did have a proper keyboard in a
>homebuilt box for it so maybe I was even back then.  Somewhen in there I
>had an Amstrad thingy I could take on the train for my six hour commute
>(see other thread!).  The number of demos I did to other passengers passing
>who asked about it I should have been on a commission from Lord Sugar.  I
>loved it.   Awww, now you've made me look it up and I'd forgotten how much
>I loved it.  I typed so many words of a magazine I edited, and other
>things, into that.  Awww.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_NC100.

https://ncus.org.uk/utils.htm#nc100em

>Now I only care about the file sizes of documents en masse as it were -
>like trying to back up all my Traveller writing folders or something.
>
>thanks for the trip down memory lane.  It would be fun to revisit the NC100
>but probably only for half an hour rather than as an actual tool.

https://ncus.org.uk/utils.htm#nc100em

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