Article: Atari Portfolio

I bought one when it first came out. I was working for NYNEX Business Information Systems at the time, I used to track my appointments, and the cool thing was it had a speaker on the back and you could autodial numbers, so I'd use it at payphones to dial a client and let them know I'd be at their site for computer work and an approx. time. A cool peripherals was the card interface for a PC, it was an ISA board to an external expansion box with a card reader/writer on it and it made moving data to/from a PC as easy as USB thumbdrives are today. A couple of companies had HD's and other expansions for the unit. In 1999 I was contacted by a lot of commercial HVAC vendors, apparently the Portfolios were being used a controllers for HVAC's, rather interesting. One of the coolest parts of the Portfolio was Atari's Introduction, like Apple did with its full page ad's in the newspapers, Atari did a big spread in the Wall Street Journal newspaper for the Intro of the Portfolio. Great little computers, for more info, see here: http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/pccomputers/portfolio.html Curt Dave Woyciesjes wrote: