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  1. 1989. A pocket PC before pocket PCs were cool. 💼💾

    Atari Portfolio. Intel 80C88 CPU. 128KB RAM. Monochrome LCD (no backlight). Full QWERTY keyboard. 3 AA batteries.

    It was tiny. It was slow. It was IBM-compatible.

    And in Terminator 2, John Connor used one to hack an ATM.

    The original palmtop. Decades ahead of its time.

    #AtariPortfolio #PalmtopPC #1989Tech #Terminator2 #HandheldComputer #RetroComputing #MobileHistory

  2. 1989. A pocket PC before pocket PCs were cool. 💼💾

    Atari Portfolio. Intel 80C88 CPU. 128KB RAM. Monochrome LCD (no backlight). Full QWERTY keyboard. 3 AA batteries.

    It was tiny. It was slow. It was IBM-compatible.

    And in Terminator 2, John Connor used one to hack an ATM.

    The original palmtop. Decades ahead of its time.

    #AtariPortfolio #PalmtopPC #1989Tech #Terminator2 #HandheldComputer #RetroComputing #MobileHistory

  3. 1989. A pocket PC before pocket PCs were cool. 💼💾

    Atari Portfolio. Intel 80C88 CPU. 128KB RAM. Monochrome LCD (no backlight). Full QWERTY keyboard. 3 AA batteries.

    It was tiny. It was slow. It was IBM-compatible.

    And in Terminator 2, John Connor used one to hack an ATM.

    The original palmtop. Decades ahead of its time.

    #AtariPortfolio #PalmtopPC #1989Tech #Terminator2 #HandheldComputer #RetroComputing #MobileHistory

  4. 1989. A pocket PC before pocket PCs were cool. 💼💾

    Atari Portfolio. Intel 80C88 CPU. 128KB RAM. Monochrome LCD (no backlight). Full QWERTY keyboard. 3 AA batteries.

    It was tiny. It was slow. It was IBM-compatible.

    And in Terminator 2, John Connor used one to hack an ATM.

    The original palmtop. Decades ahead of its time.

    #AtariPortfolio #PalmtopPC #1989Tech #Terminator2 #HandheldComputer #RetroComputing #MobileHistory

  5. 1989. A pocket PC before pocket PCs were cool. 💼💾

    Atari Portfolio. Intel 80C88 CPU. 128KB RAM. Monochrome LCD (no backlight). Full QWERTY keyboard. 3 AA batteries.

    It was tiny. It was slow. It was IBM-compatible.

    And in Terminator 2, John Connor used one to hack an ATM.

    The original palmtop. Decades ahead of its time.

    #AtariPortfolio #PalmtopPC #1989Tech #Terminator2 #HandheldComputer #RetroComputing #MobileHistory

  6. Issue #2 of Les Chroniques du Portfolio, French fanzine dedicated to #AtariPortfolio IBM PC-compatible palmtop PC bartitsu59.itch.io/les-chroniq #atari

  7. Issue #2 of Les Chroniques du Portfolio, French fanzine dedicated to #AtariPortfolio IBM PC-compatible palmtop PC bartitsu59.itch.io/les-chroniq #atari

  8. Recently I heard part of a podcast in which the host (I think #CoryDoctorow ) mentioned that the cost (by volume) of ink for inkjet printers is more than the semen of winning racehorses.

    Though my opinion of inkjet printers has been poor from their start, about 35 years ago I bought a small Epson model for practically nothing at a surplus store (HSC Electronics, then probably still called Halted Specialties Company, after its founders Hal and Ted). I found that I could fill the reservoir in its print head with fountain pen ink via a syringe with a hypodermic needle. I recall sometimes carrying it in a bag and at my university printing letters that I had written using my #AtariPortfolio palmtop computer. (It also fit in my jacket pocket, ran code that I could write and compile on a PC with Borland software, and ran on 3 AA batteries!)

  9. Recently I heard part of a podcast in which the host (I think #CoryDoctorow ) mentioned that the cost (by volume) of ink for inkjet printers is more than the semen of winning racehorses.

    Though my opinion of inkjet printers has been poor from their start, about 35 years ago I bought a small Epson model for practically nothing at a surplus store (HSC Electronics, then probably still called Halted Specialties Company, after its founders Hal and Ted). I found that I could fill the reservoir in its print head with fountain pen ink via a syringe with a hypodermic needle. I recall sometimes carrying it in a bag and at my university printing letters that I had written using my #AtariPortfolio palmtop computer. (It also fit in my jacket pocket, ran code that I could write and compile on a PC with Borland software, and ran on 3 AA batteries!)

  10. After APF-01, the replacement USB memory card for #AtariPortfolio, from the same manufacturer here is APF-02, the USB reader of original memory cards apfram.com #atari #retrocomputing #AtariPCfolio

  11. After APF-01, the replacement USB memory card for #AtariPortfolio, from the same manufacturer here is APF-02, the USB reader of original memory cards apfram.com #atari #retrocomputing #AtariPCfolio