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Portfolio palmtop - 10/15/2004 4:54:43 AM

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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.

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

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RE: Portfolio palmtop - 10/15/2004 5:04:31 AM

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Interesting info mate

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RE: Portfolio palmtop - 10/15/2004 6:27:07 AM

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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.