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

From: Dan (dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 09:58:25 PDT

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-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Rehorst
>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 :)

You mean "bearly lugables" heh ;)

-Dan

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