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From: andy@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Purshottam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Portfolio memory expansion? (Do it with SIMS?)
Summary: Looks cute, but damn thing comes with only 32K (YES, K!)
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Date: 14 Dec 89 08:08:09 GMT
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Reply-To: andy@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andrew Purshottam)
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Hi, I looked at the portfolio at Winners Circle (popular Berkeley
Atari/Commodore shop) and was quite impressed with what Atari had
put in handheld for $400. What stopped me from buying it was the
information that it came with only 32K of memory, and that no expansion
boards were yet avvail (this was about 3 weeks ago, so my info may 
be obselete). The expansion, when avail was 256K for (I think) about
$300. (Atarians on net please correct me.) 

Has anyone investigated the possibility that Portfolios can be
ungraded w/SIMs? The guy at store said you needed special memory 
upgrade from Atari, but he also admitted that he had nevere opened it up
fully and studied it. He said that while it was not reasonable to
think of using MS dos software with unexpanded machine, it
has built in software that one can use. (I was quite impressed
at both the knowledge and honesty of WC people; have not bought
anything from them yet, but probably will).

    Andy