IBM PC hacking

[Jim Leonard]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> required."  They felt it was necessary to tell the potential customer
> that they'd need a disk drive to use software distributed on disk.

Or, somewhat ironically, a word processor probably wouldn't be useful if you 
couldn't save your work quickly and often.

Then again, could you do useful word-processing work on a cassette-based 
machine?  Anyone who use Atari 8-bit, C64, etc. -- was this common?  I assume 
that you'd load the wordprocessor via tape, then run the machine without 
powering down and save your work(s) to a blank tape...  but I don't remember 
that as being common; I remember disks being much more common and practical.
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