Article: Atari Portfolio

[Curt @ Atari Museum]

I bought one when it first came out.   I was working for NYNEX Business 
Information Systems at the time, I used to track my appointments, and 
the cool thing was it had a speaker on the back and you could autodial 
numbers, so I'd use it at payphones to dial a client and let them know 
I'd be at their site for computer work and an approx. time.     A cool 
peripherals was the card interface for a PC, it was an ISA board to an 
external expansion box with a card reader/writer on it and it made 
moving data to/from a PC as easy as USB thumbdrives are today.

A couple of companies had HD's and other expansions for the unit.      
In 1999 I was contacted by a lot of commercial HVAC vendors, apparently 
the Portfolios were being used a controllers for HVAC's, rather 
interesting.   One of the coolest parts of the Portfolio was Atari's 
Introduction, like Apple did with its full page ad's in the newspapers, 
Atari did a big spread in the Wall Street Journal newspaper for the 
Intro of the Portfolio.

Great little computers, for more info, see here:

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


Curt

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>     here's a neat I device i don't recall ever hearing about...
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/07/forgotten_tech_atari_portfolio/
>