Thread: The future of digital reading is on the phone
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Old 08-22-2015, 02:56 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The Pilot range of Palm devices had a maximum of 1MB of storage space. Wasn't that rather limiting for books? The reason I preferred "Pocket PC" devices myself was because they could use CompactFlash storage and hence let you store lots of books. A typical book as a text file is a couple of hundred kB; weren't you restricted to a handful of books in only 1MB?
Remember, Baen ebooks didn't start until late 1998/1999. We were already up to the Palm III and Palm IV at that time. The Tunsten line had a slot where you could add a memory card.
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