The overall school attendance is set at 900, expendable to 1100 with new portables.

You can simply put the new portable in your pocket and take it with you.

Some new portables can communicate with other machines by radio or store handwritten data.

Recently a new larger portable was added which does support air conditioning unlike the school itself.

A few companies introduced new portables just before the Comdex show.

These new portables will round out Apple's revamped product line, especially at the lower range of the price scale.

Two dealers at Comdex said they had been told by I.B.M. that a new portable would be introduced in April.

"We'll just have to keep adding a couple of new portables every year until we get a new school," Mr. Hopper said.

In addition to shortwave, nearly all these new portables also receive standard AM as well as FM stations.

About 5-10 new portables were added to the school's campus to fit all the students into classes.