"A hard disk is recommended, but not necessary since each week’s issue of TidBITS will never be more than 40K."

TidBITS - A HyperCard-based news journal. - comp.sys.mac | Google Groups

The announcement of TidBITS issue #1 by Adam Engst some 1000 issues ago. Another nugget of historical awesome for you to chew on. (via Daring Fireball - but you should know that because you should be reading it)