New in the collection, pt. 2: NEC PWP-100

A small tidbit about Keyport 717 that caught my eye was people worrying about its memory requirements. If each key can output not just one, but more characters, and there are over 700 keys, that can quickly add up to a few kilobytes. In an era where your Apple II might have 16 or 32 kilobytes total , even two kilobytes becomes a noticeable tax. In Japan around that time, this kind of challenge…