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From: mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark Newton-John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Portfolio memory expansion
Message-ID: <3640@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 07:58:13 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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(Gee, back after about two months and I still see people bitch
about Atari... oh well)

Okay, I just bought an Atari HPC004, otherwise known as the
Portfolio, and I have this question... 

Can anyone with reliable (please, no speculations or rambling
tirades about vaporware or Atari's alleged business practices, eh?)
information tell me if the memory expansion is forthcoming? I would
like to use the HPC-004 as a communications terminal, and would
like to explore more possibilities of it's capabilities.

By the way, (and this surprised me!) The Good Guys is running a 
*FULL PAGE* Atari Portfolio ad, and we are including the Parallel
Interface and a 32k Memory Card *FOR FREE*. About $130 in
accessories thrown in. Needless to say, I finally bought one.

Although I work at The Good Guys, Portfolios are sold in another
department, and I would not benefit by "advertising" it here, but I
post this blurb as a service.

My guess is that Atari is throwing in some co-op ad money, and
offering the Portfolio/32k Card/Interface at a nice price to our
buyers to help Portfolio sales. Of course, as a long time Atari
enthusiast, I hope it works. I certainly am reserved about some,
shall I be kind, "detractors" that work for the company and
disparage the Portfolio...


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