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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: bright (or dumb) idea
Keywords: portfolio projects connector
Message-ID: <8164@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 5 May 89 18:10:18 GMT
References: <8365@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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In article <8365@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>  Would it be reasonable for Atari to make an effort to spread the
>description of the Portfolio's peripheral interface in every available public
>location (like comp.sys.atari.st / INFOATARI16, for instance)?

A better idea: spread it in MS-DOS machine-related groups on public and
commercial networks-- that way people who are accustomed to working with
DOS-based machines and that weird architecture, who would probably be
better at designing for the Portfolio, could make use of that
information...

Roy Good's posting about the possibility of connecting to a PC bus also
opens some interesting avenues... I picture the Portfolio as a "drop-in"
brain for a desktop machine that relies on the Portfolio for most stuff
but offers a full keyboard/display/drives etc... (not to suggest that
it's in the works, just that it might be an interesting thing to
produce.  Idle fantasies again...).

-Antonio Romero             romero@lexis.princeton.edu