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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Portable Amiga
Summary: I would love an amiga portable
Message-ID: <449@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 21:29:20 GMT
References: <0257.AA0257@floopy> <816@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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In article <816@microsoft.UUCP>, w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
> I doubt it.  Very little need.  Also, portable == LCD, and I don't know
> how you'd do a Copper for an LCD display.  The Amiga is pretty tied to
> its video.

I think there is just as much need for a portable Amiga as there is for any
portable computer. I would love to be able to fold up my amiga and take it
on trips with me, to my friends house, to the local amiga group meetings, etc.
It's kind of hard to take my current system apart and haul it around.

As for LCD screens, I remember reading about an LCD screen that would emulate
a CRT. In other words it had the hardware built into it to convert the CRT
port output into LCD input. You could plug this baby right into a CGA 
adaptor (which means it would probably work on an Amiga) and it would work.
I saw it in a mag called EE times or something like that (it's been a year
or so). Has anyone else heard of such an animal?

I would settle for just a transportable amiga. One that still needed AC
power (instead of batteries) that was easy to fold up and take along.

Come to think of it, with the LCD screen I mentioned, if it still exists,
and my amiga 1000, that would be all that I need to make a transportable.
The biggest hassle of moving my amiga is the monitor.





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