Portfolio News: 15-May-95 #2
From: Michael Current (aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Date: 08/28/95-11:46:20 AM Z
From: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
Subject: Portfolio News: 15-May-95 #2
Date: Mon Aug 28 11:46:20 1995
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* P O R T F O L I O N E W S *
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* Internet newsletter for *
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No 2 May 15, 1995
Hello all PF fans everywhere!!!!
There are some more news again for old good Portfolio.
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Hottest NEWS from the TOAD Computers.
New Portfolios still available!!
You can buy the 1MB CARD for PF!!
New PF $200
1MB RAM/FLASH CARD $179
PC Card drive $79
110V AC adapter $10
Portfolio Books $17
Contact:
e-mail toad@charm.net
fax + 1 410 544 1329
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First of all, there are now more than 45 PF fans that have
contacted our PF club via Internet. And it is a nice number.
Well, so it seems that PF has not died completely. I do not know
the total number of all Portfolios in the world. And I am sure
that no one knows how many of them are still being used. But let's
try a small estimation:
Maybe 500 000 PFs were made. If 3/4 were dead by now still
about 125 000 PFs wuld be living.
If only one in ten (1/10) PF users was interested in novelties, there
are 12 500 people who want new things. And it seems worth making
new soft and hard for them.
Well the greatest problem seems to be the access to the PF users.
Those who are on the NET have no problem getting soft, texts and
ordering new hardware. But most of the people in the outer world
will never get in touch with our activities.
If you know any PF users who cannot join the NET, please make
a copy of this text on your printer and distribute it.
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Write to our magazine!!!
If you have any ideas, comments, etc. that seem to interest
other PF users, send e-mail to us. We will include your message
into new issue of the newsletter.
If you decide to write, please identify the SUBJECT so that
it is easy to recognize it from other e-mail.
Example:
SUBJECT "PF NEWs: list of soft available from X.Y."
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There is a steady demand for new things and especially for peripherals.
The reason is simple. A "dead" Atari dealer told me that about 10 times
more PF units were sold than cards, interfaces, card readers.
It seems very funny that our club that was originally meant to be
a non-profit organization, is now running hardware production.
I asked at the Czech Customs Office and found that there is no
special regulation for export of electronics.
So it is possible now to get all the things we have for PF
Here is the list:
CODE description price in CZC note
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HPC 010 new PF 128k RAM 5800
HPC 011 new PF 512k RAM 8200
HPC 102 Atari serial interface 1900
HPC 202 Atari 64k RAM card 1900
HPC 104 256k Memory expansion+ 2900
HPC 301 PC card reader 2800
HPD 300 parallel interface 1400
HPD 400 128KB RAM card 2300
HPD 500 FDD unit 1,44 MB 5800
+ 25pin par. interface
HPD 600 PortWalk tape recorder 700
interface
HPD 103 Leather case for PF 500
HPD 200 Portfolio Tech. Guide 400
120pgs, English + diskette
HPD 203 Portfolio Programmier Praxis 400
345pgs, German + diskette
HPD 700 Upgrade your RAM to 512 KB 3500
HPD 801 60 pin PF BUS connector 300
HPD 803 hardware adaptation for 700
permanent NiCd usage
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How to order the products
1. Decide what you want to get. It seems better to find
some PF friends and share the expenditures on charges
for sending the stuff.
2. Send us your "order"
by e-mail to sedlakj@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz
by fax to + 42 2 29 51 86
3. We will contact you back, telling if the products are
currently available and stating the total price in CZ.
(total price + shipping charges).
Current rate: 1 USD makes 29 CZ crowns
4. Send the money in USD or DEM to our bank account
account no. 770252-028/0800
at Ceska Sporitelna Praha 2
5. After receiving a note from bank, we will send the ordered
things directly to you.
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* What we are looking for:
- any PF fans that want to join us
- any PF users who are able to develop new soft
- information about: Re:Port, Portfolio Connection Newsletter, etc.
- any kind of emotional, mental and other support
- any dealer that is willing to go on with
PF stuff and wants to sell our products
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This issue of Portfolio News was published on May 15, 1995.
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Special greetings to:
Don Messerli - for his soft and graphics
BJ Gleason - for PBASIC and tons of other things
S. Spoelstra - for his BASIC, and others
Tomas Dusek - Go on developing the hardware!
Martin & Milan Hrdlicka - the authors of new graphic BIOS
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Novell DOS 7.0 and IBM OS/2 user Fred Horvat
MultiTOS user, have STacy will travel Free-Net Atari Portfolio Sigop
Videogame Trader Newsletter Publisher Atari Classic/LYNX/Jaguar gamer
Ask for a free issue! And Let's Not Forget an ADAMite!
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Michael Current, Keeper of the 8-Bit Atari FAQ & Vendor/Developer Lists
Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIGOp: aa700 / mailto:mcurrent@carleton.edu
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