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From: SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portfolio
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Date: 2 May 90 19:55:24 GMT
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In article <893@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood) writes:
> Regarding the portfolio, I have been looking at those little things as a 
> roamer computer for me to use when I am away from the terminals at school.
> Unfortunately, I also need a few other functions out of any computer I get 
> at this time.  One of them is to get a computer with which I could run MIDI 
> software (thus saving me all kinds of money on a Q80 sequencer I have been 
> looking at buying to go with my K1 II synthesizer). 

Given that the serial port is not hardware compatible with a PC and that the
IBM ROM BIOS does not allow you to set the baud rate to the really strange
one used by MIDI, I seriously doubt that any PC MIDI sequencer would have
a chance of running on the Portfolio.
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