Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga portable Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 04:53:23 GMT References: <2468@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 36 In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389) writes: >[ Followup-To has been set to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy where IMHO >this discussion belongs. ] > >I hate to say it, but who would really PURCHASE an Amiga Portable? > >The price would be more than an Amiga 500, so forget that market. >That market wouldn't want to play games on an LCD display anyway. Well, depending on the economy, I would suggest that cable companies and high schools that do remote broadcasts and need a genlocking system that will run off of a couple batteries(those SONY batteries from the VO6800(?) would probably be ideal since anyone using porta-packs in 3/4 inch format probably allready has a dozen or so of those batteries and the chargers will charge 4 batteries unsupervised in one session). Hook up one of those SONY monitors that operates on a 12 volt battery and you are in business. Set it up like the 6800 as well, have it hold two batteries, and when one is allmost drained, an LED above the drained battery goes on. Pull it out and it will switch to the other battery automagically. Then replace with a fresh one. This sounds really good for a one camera shoot at an Basketball game. Have two people, one to run C/G and VTR, and let the other to play with the camera. Around here, Comcast Cable is famous for one camera coverage of Basketball, Football, and Baseball games, and never showing the score or any character generation. >Tom Limoncelli tlimonce@drew.edu tlimonce@drew.bitnet 201-408-5389 -- Ronald Kushner Life In Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!)