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From: d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (SVEN AXELSSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Should I buy the Portfolio?
Message-ID: <11576@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 30 Aug 90 10:15:18 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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I need something very portable mainly for word
processing purposes, and I'm thinking of buying
an Atari Portfolio. Questions:

o  Is that a good choice, or are there other
    al|ternatives to consider? (I don't need a 
    calculator, so I guess the HP machines
    are out of the question here. )

o   I 'm a Macintosh user. Can the Portfolio
    handle sending files to and from my Macintosh, 
    or is that a problem?

o   I intend to use this machine in
    academic meetings. I don't want to irritate
    people with beeps or keyboard clicks. What
    about the Portfolio in this respect?

o   I'm interested in logic programming and
    would like to port a small Prolog interpreter,
    written in Pascal, to the Portfolio. Will this be
    possible?

o   Do you think I should wait for a better, that
    is smaller and more powerful, machine? Is
    Atari planning a new version?

Thanks for your opinions

Torbjoern Lager

Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg
University, Sweden