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From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Portfolio Problem
Message-ID: <keld.676587341@dkuugin>
Date: 10 Jun 91 20:55:41 GMT
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harry@hparc0.HP.COM (Harry Page) writes:

>My wife brought a Portfolio recently but when she went to use it
>the other day the whole contents of memory had wiped themselves. The date was
>still correct but the setup was also gone. Does this mean she has a bad one
>or are Portfolios prone to this? She gets alot of use from it normally but
>if it is going to do this on a regular basis we might as well get rid of it
>and get a 95LX. 

I have had the problem 3 times in 9 months. The first time was
when somebody took out the RAM card while the machine was on.
The other times I do not know what happened.

Atari has a warning with the machine I bought - that
one should avoid some special situation at the end
of a document. They may have corrected that error by now.

I think you can avoid the problem by handling the RAM card
carefully and do regular backups to a PC. 

Keld Simonsen