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- From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: atari portfolio as dial-up terminal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.111806.26481@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 11:18:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.000636.1575@panix.com>
- Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com
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- Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.
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- In article 1575@panix.com, dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
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- [modemy bits deleted]
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- >
- >btw, way back, when I purchased the unit, I just about begged Atari to
- >make it two inches longer, which would have given it an almost full width
- >keyboard, and made the screen something like 70 chars wide (or, in other
- >words, just about the full width of a standard line). This would also
- >have given them room to put a modem directly in the body.
- > but they wouldn't listen.
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- Atari didn't design the Portfolio. It was designed by;
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- Distributed Information Processing Ltd.,
- Surrey research Park,
- Guildford,
- GU2 5XN,
- UK.
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- Atari just market it, since DIP didn't have the marketing muscle to.
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- Regards,
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- Hugh.
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