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From: bruceb@informix.com (Bruce Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: More Portfolio News and Rumors
Keywords: Portfolio, Rumors, News
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.202028.11170@informix.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 20:20:28 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.152350.16892@Think.COM> laird@think.com (Laird Popkin) writes:
>The latest news regarding the Portfolio is that apprently the list price
>has been dropped to  $299.

According to press releases I saw this is already official.


>My personal guess is that the price drop for the Portfolio with 128K is a
>prelude to introducing a more expensive, 512K Portfolio.

I think this would have happened at Cebit last week in Hannover, Germany.  I
didn't hear anything about it and I do have some european connections.  Could
be though.  I know some people internal to Atari have special models that
have 512K...

>By the way, thanks for the info on the Smith Corona cards.  They seem to be
>a lot cheaper than Atari's cards!  I just love mass production and
>competition...
>
>- Laird

Do the Smith Corona cards work in the Atari?  I hadn't read anything definite
about them...

I second your sentiment regarding mass production and competition...

Cheers,

BB