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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: Amiga portable
Message-ID: <1991May28.100308.86798@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 28 May 91 00:03:08 GMT
References: <1991May8.163106.25609@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <21864@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2466@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <1991May27.033800.9769@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991May27.033800.9769@agate.berkeley.edu>, chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu) writes:
> In article <2466@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> force@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (Jason Henry Den Dulk) writes:
>>The last I heard was that the amiga portable was scraped due to legal
>>problems. I know this a blow to the

> Care to comment as to what KIND of legal problem?

        The 'portable' was not being developed by C=. It was/is(?) being
developed by a third party company (name forgotten) in Germany. The first
prototype that I heard about used an A500 motherboard. I've heard nothing
else since then. Although the 'protable' may have died, the development
that did go into it has produced some marketable products, such as a 2.5"
internal hard disk for the A500 (exactly how they fit the interface I
don't know. Possibly a piggyback arrangement in the 68000 socket). I only
heard about the internal disk from a european magazine reviewing an Amiga
expo about a year ago. I have no idea if it ever went on sale to the public.

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