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From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: I'm for the Portfolio concept
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Date: 7 May 89 22:35:00 GMT
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I posted the Atari press release about the Portfolio on our company's BBS and
one user flamed it too death. (He also said the Mac, Atari and Commodore
systems were passe!!!!!).

I replied on the BBS that I used to carry a Zenith laptop on business (try
lugging 15 lbs of micro from the Washington airport to the Metro) but I have
gone back to the Radio Shack Model 100 our group bought years ago. All I do
on trips is write reports and the Model 100 is great and LIGHT.

I applaud the Portfolio concept since a lightweight notetaker is great. The
hell with a 10 or 20 meg drive over the shoulder. Give me a RAM based system
anyday. The only advantage the Model 100 has over the Portfolio is a built
in 300 baud modem and an easy to use upload/download utility. Before someone
flames a 300 baud modem - I wrote my last report on the plane from Las Vegas
to Chicago (and downed a brew from Chicago to Toronto), I got to my office
at 11;00 a.m. the next business day, I unplugged my SL/1 (Northern Telecom
digital modem) from my 1040ST and hooked up the Model 100, I started the xfer
to our VAX and went for a coffee, came back and logged onto the VAX with my
1040 and touched up the document, printed out and FAXed the report to
Denver by noon. Hey, the system worked and I did not get a dislocated shoulder!

If the Portfolio can dump to my ST easily then I look forward to getting one
(even though it is a dreaded MessyDOS system).

Hey did you see Current Notes for May; it says the new STacy has an internal
slot for Spectre 128 (love it, the first portable Mac!)