Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:9651 comp.sys.amiga.misc:4076 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:1451 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njsmu!mccc!dworkin!jtravis From: jtravis@dworkin.Amber.COM (Jim, Sysop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: Amiga portable Keywords: I need a portable Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 00:37:48 GMT References: Sender: bbs@dworkin.UUCP Organization: Labyrinth II BBS Lines: 42 johns@dworkin.Amber.COM (John Silvia) writes: > The only other Amiga Portable that I had heard of was one that I reported to > INFO Magazine a long while ago. The President and Founder of DynaMac Inc. > Who's brother I was working with in the State of N.J. had gotten me to talk > with him, and in our conversations he let me "in" on the secret project that > he was working on. > > The project was the taking of an A500 and repackaging it into a portable > case, and adding a display that would operate on batteries. This was a "go" > until the investing company for the DynaMac decided that the Amiga was not > worth the trouble of repackaging, so they canned the entire project. > > Note that Dynamac went out of business on a similar note. DynaMac built > their portable macs the same way that they wanted to do the Amiga clones - > they would buy Mac Pluses and take them apart, and then > scavence/remanufacture/recase parts as necessary. > > Their largest problem was with price. The cost of taking apart a machine > that cost the same as one for college students was just too much overhead, > and Apple managed to kill the company by milking them in the wallet. Actually, Dyanmac was bought up by Apple Computer, in lieu of litagation. Jim And I think we're all thinking of the Amiga portable project by the German company Gigatronics. What ever happened to them? Are they still around? ..and now the commercial.. --------///---------------------------------------------------------- /// Jim Trascapoulos * CSAccess BBS * 609-584-8774 /// *** Usenet: jtravis@dworkin.amber.mccc.Edu *** \\\ /// "I was told once that people don't like to think anymore, \\\/// so I tried to sell one a Mac. It worked." --\XX/--------------------------------------------------------------- "Spread the legs, open breach, erect launcher, apply lube, ram home into the breach, fire." -Field Artillery manual