Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:9578 comp.sys.amiga.misc:3996 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:1421 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njsmu!mccc!dworkin!johns From: johns@dworkin.Amber.COM (John Silvia) 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: 27 May 91 22:50:19 GMT References: <2468@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> Sender: bbs@dworkin.UUCP Organization: Labyrinth II BBS Lines: 19 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.