This Atari Portfolio is in great condition and comes with a power supply. See the pictures to see how well it has been looked after.
PROGRAMMES INCLUDED ON IT ARE:
- ADDRESS BOOK
- CALCULATOR
- DIARY
- TEXT EDITOR
- CLIPBOARD
Supplied complete with power supply. Since the Portfolio was the worlds first pocket 'PC' this would make a fantastic addition to any vintage computer enthusiasts collection. It takes normal AA batteries, but when I tried the ones from my remote control it wouldn't turn on, perhaps they don't hold enough charge?, but it works on the PSU fine anyway ..
Taken from oldcomputers.net:
"The Atari Portfolio - world's first handheld/palmtop/pocket "PC". The Portfolio is almost the exact same size as a VHS VCR tape. It is not, of course, the first pocket-sized computer. Radio Shack released its pocket-sized computer, the TRS-80 PC-1, over 9 years earlier, in 1980. The difference is, that the TRS-80 PC-1 is programmable only in BASIC, while the Portfolio is an MS-DOS compatible computer. "
Information :
It is built around an Intel 80C88 CPU running at 4.9152MHz and runs a variant of MS-DOS called DIP DOS 2.11. It has 128 KiB of RAM and 256 KiB of ROM which contains the OS and built-in applications. The on-board RAM had to be divided between system memory and local storage (the C: drive). The LCD is monochrome without backlight and has 240x64 pixels or 40 characters x 8 lines.
There is an expansion port on the right side of computer for parallel, serial or MIDI expansion modules. It uses a card expansion port for removable memory, which is unfortunately not compatible with PCMCIA as it predates the standard. Built-in applications include a text processor, spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3 compatible), phone book and time manager. Additional applications were available to purchase as ROM cards which went in the card expansion port. Most text-based MS-DOS applications could be run on the Portfolio as long as they did not directly access the hardware and could fit into the small memory. (Taken from Wikipedia)
Trivia : !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Portfolio appears in the film
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, where it is used by the young John Connor to bypass security on an
ATM ("Fedteller") with a
dongle (Atari's Parallel Interface) and a security door keycard system. Though this trick was fictitious, a similar application was developed for the Portfolio in the early '90s to crack
Simplex doorlocks at MIT. (Taken from Wikipedia)
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Pictures are of Actual Item
