Introduction

Stores

Newton data is stored in stores. A store is a physical device that stores data and is similar to hard drives or volumes on desktop machines. Each Newton has an internal store. When you insert a ROM or RAM PC card, it has an external store as well. At the time this book was written, Newtons only had these two stores. There may well be more stores in the future, however, as it is easy to imagine a Newton with more than one PC card slot. You can also imagine databases on a host machine appearing as soups in a pseudo-store.

In your understanding of stores, there are three important points to remember:


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