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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: (Will Atari blow it again? (Was: Interface to Atari Portfolio)
Keywords: portfolio
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Date: 25 Aug 90 05:07:22 GMT
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In <8322@ncar.ucar.edu> sitongia@hao.ucar.EDU (Leonard Sitongia) writes:

>I looked at an Atari Portfolio in a store the other day.  It was a
>recent arrival, so the clerk didn't know much about it.  I'd hoped
>that it would have direct RS232 I/O interfaced, but it looks like
>one must get a peripheral to plug into its bus interface.  The store
>didn't have any literature on this.  What peripherals are available
>and how does one interface RS232 to it?

Veering away from the original topic:  This is not a good sign.  I've
been interested in the Portfolio ever since I heard that Atari sold a
development kit that included a Portfolio emulator for PCs.
(Supposedly, most PC compilers work with it.)  But the above horror
story (how serious can the store or its supplier be about a product
if they don't even know about, never mind stock, its accessories?),
and the invisibility of Atari's marketing efforts make me wonder if
this product is going anywhere.  Too bad, the world was just about
ready for an MS-DOS machine with no moving parts....
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