At 12:49 PM -0400 6/7/07, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I so wanted one of those when they came out! Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

The Portfolio really isn't very rare. Easily obtained, plenty of good support on the web. It was a peer of other late-1980s clamshells such as the HP-95, Poqet/Fujitsu, Sharp PC-3000, etc. ... actually the Portfolio's major claim to fame was an appearance in the movie "Terminator 2". -----Original Message----- From: Dave Woyciesjes [mailto:woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:50 PM To: ClassicCMP Subject: Article: Atari Portfolio here's a neat I device i don't recall ever hearing about... http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/07/forgotten_tech_atari_portfolio/ -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes "From there to here, From here to there, Funny things are everywhere." --- Dr. Seuss

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: