palmtop trivia

[8bit]

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. :D

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

[skroo]

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.

Yup. It was also the first palmtop device to be PC-compatible. I've been trying to find one of these for years to add to the collection but they're rather hard to come across.

[allentrace]

I've been trying to find one of these for years to add to the collection but they're rather hard to come across.

Ebay has it up on auction for another 3 days and 17hrs. Bid price is 30 AU(austrailian), whatever the hell that is in US dollar.

[8bit]

These Atari specialists sell the Portfolio.

http://www.myatari.com/

[lil_freak]

Bid price is 30 AU(austrailian), whatever the hell that is in US dollar.

It's $22.1010 USD

Not a bad price.

[astcell]

Batteries?