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From: bhine@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Butler Hine  sst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Any chance of a portable Amiga?
Keywords: miracle, pipe dream
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Date: 14 Dec 88 17:36:20 GMT
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In article <5764@saturn.ucsc.edu> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
>
>I'm not asking for much, maybe just a 500 with 1 meg, 2 floppy drives, and a
>full screen LCD (or whatever).  Of course, an extra meg and a 20 MB SCSI hard
...wild fantasizing deleted...
>, smaller, and more contained than the A500.  I would be happy even with a A500
>with an extra drive and builtin LCD screen.
>

When I originally bought my A1000, one of the first things I got for it
was a padded case with a handle.  I took it with me on a few trips, but
soon found that the lack of a monitor really cramps your style (although
it is easy to use an RF adapter and plug in to the nearest TV set).  I
have been checking periodically the quality of the new LCD color TV's as
regards a portable monitor, but so far they don't really measure up as 
useable in 640x200 mode (although you can read them in LO-RES).  What I
would really like to see is a 640x200 LCD flat panel screen which
accepted IBM style RGB TTL signals.  At this point, I would even settle
for shades of grey (or amber, whatever).  If anyone hears of such a
beast, let us know about it.  I think Commodore is missing a bet by not 
offering a portable.  And they are so close, considering how small and
light the A500 already is.  Just my opinion.

			Butler Hine
			NASA Ames Research Center
			hine@galileo.arc.nasa.gov