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From: knutsen@athos.rutgers.edu (Mark Knutsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari News - Portfolio
Message-ID: <Apr.17.17.03.25.1989.15524@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 89 21:03:26 GMT
References: <10212@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <Apr.15.10.03.49.1989.23536@athos.rutgers.edu> <17301@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <17301@cup.portal.com> Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted
Szymonik) writes:

[regarding the new Atari MS-DOS machine]
> Nope, this one is REAL folks!  Really caught the eyes of the MS-DOSers
> at COMDEX.

So it would seem.  I received the following from Atari:

] From: atari!jwt@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jim Tittsler)
] To: knutsen@athos.rutgers.edu
] Subject: Re: Atari News - Portfolio
] In-Reply-To: your article <Apr.15.10.03.49.1989.23536@athos.rutgers.edu>
] 
] > In article <10212@ihlpb.ATT.COM> mrp@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Prickett) writes:
] > > From: "Information Week" - Issue 215 (4/10/89) Pg. 36
] > > 	Atari Computer began shipping Portfolio, a 1-pound MS-DOS
] > > 	machine. 
] > Atari began shipping something new?  This close to April 1, it looks
] > like an April Fool's joke.
] 
] No, it is not shipping yet.  We have demonstrated prototypes, but public
] shipments have not begun.
] 
] Jim Tittsler, Systems Engineer, Atari Corp.

Perhaps Mr. Tittsler would be willing to give us some more
information.  Keyboard style? (I suppose we don't get a full-size
QWERTY keyboard for one pound)  Memory capacity?  External storage?
Price?
-- 
Mark Knutsen                   knutsen@rutgers.edu  -or-  {...}!rutgers!knutsen
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