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8bit	10-21-2004 12:43 AM

Portfolio palmtop

I was watching Terminator 2 the other day and noticed the character John Connor using a small piece of Atari hardware to work out the pin no. for a stolen credit card and steal cash.
It looked interesting so I went to the Atari museum website and found out it was their palmtop computer the Portfolio (1989), quite a neat little device for its day. Apparently running an 8088 chip at 4mhz. :biggrin:

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers...portfolio.html

eviltechie

10-21-2004 12:48 AM

wow thats a heck of a design for that time
interesting read!

the keyboard and the extra PC card storage was so ahead of its time for a PDA

8bit	10-21-2004 05:06 AM

My first PC was an Atari 400 (with 48k) but I must have been out of it by the late 80s because I didn't know about the Portfolio. All this time I thought he was holding an Atari Lynx. Now I have heard that someone OC'd a Portfolio so that it ran at 6mhz, but this drained the battery somewhat. :(

StinkyMojo

10-21-2004 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 8bit

Now I have heard that someone OC'd a Portfolio so that it ran at 6mhz, but this drained the battery somewhat. :(

haha, that's funny

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