Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!helens!baroque!jim From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Poqet PC and Atari Portfolio Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 20:34:23 GMT References: <7741@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1990Jul9.135128.4256@cbnewsj.att.com> <6264@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> Sender: news@helens.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford University Lines: 30 In-reply-to: powers@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de's message of 30 Jul 90 16:26:02 GMT > I first heard about the POQUET about two years ago, and have been trying > to buy one (unsuccessfully) ever since, in virtually every country except > Japan. For the first year or two I understand it was only being marketed > in Japan. This year I have seen exemplars on display in the UK and have > seen advertizing for it in Germany. But I still can't even get a price. > Earlier in the year I still couldn't get it in the US. I have tried > tracking it down through the Fujitsu link as well, but their sales > offices seem to be ignorantof it. All information about availability and > experience is thus most welcome. Poqet PC's have been available here in California since mid-March (when I bought one from Connecting Point in Palo Alto). The disk drives were delayed but made it to dealers early this month. Standard packages are also beginning to come out on ROM cards (e.g. Lotus 123, AlphaWorks, ACT!). I hadn't heard they were available in Japan first. As far as I know these were pretty close to FCS. One of the major problems with the Poqet will go away when they start shipping inexpensive ROM card burners for ROMming your favorite PC packages. The selection of commercially available ROMmed software is still limited, and using 512K RAM cards at $500 a pop for this was prohibitively expensive (Note: In the Poqet the RAM/ROM cards are the functional equivalent of floppy disks). Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics 6 Trillium Lane Stanford University San Carlos, CA 94070 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) (415) 723-9127