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From: frandsen@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Tommy Frandsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Calculator for the Atari Portfolio
Keywords: portfolio,calculator
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.114937.29999@diku.dk>
Date: 5 Sep 90 11:49:37 GMT
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Hello! I have just bought a Portfolio and found it to be a nice little 
gadget with a tremendous potential. However, the built-in calculator 
was a disappointment. As a consequence I'm looking for a better calculator
program that I can download to the Portfolio, preferably a scientific 
RPN-style calculator.

The other day I actually found an interesting shareware package at SIMTEL20
(ftp 26.2.0.74, directory PD1:<MSDOS.CALCULATOR>, file XACT.ZIP). The package
includes three programs which emulates a HP-11C, HP-12C and HP-16C, 
respectively. The programs runs flawlessly on my desktop PC, but to my great
disappointment not on the Portfolio. When I try to run the programs, they
display an opening screen and then they locks up the Portfolio completely
(hardware reset necessary). 

Now for my questions:
   - Has anyone got the XACT-calculators to run on the Portfolio, and how?
   - Does anyone know about other suitable calculator programs?
Please reply to:
   - frandsen@diku.dk
Any comments will be appreciated. If appropiate I will post a summary to this
newsgroup. Thanks for reading my letter!

Tommy Frandsen (frandsen@diku.dk)