Re: [NTLK] It was a gift. I'm sorry....

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 08:32:24 PDT

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Goodwin, Greg wrote:
> Then for about a month I tinkered with an ATARI PORTFOLIO! It was so
> cool having a device with a Atari logo on it!! And I tried using it!
> But the poor device, made in 1989, couldn't compete with it's no
> backlight, static ram, two hours of battery life, and very hard to get
> memory cards (64K & 128K if you can believe that). I could have upped
> the memory, added backlight, put longer lasting lithium batteries, and
> bought a converter to use 1 meg Newton cards... but then I thought to
> myself... why do all that when I could just...

My other collection of obsolete hardware is old DOS portables :)

I have a rather complete set of Atari Portfolio stuff - much of it still with
the original boxes. However the pride and joy is my NEC Ultralite:

http://www.chuma.org/ultralite/

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