saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (05/05/89)
It looks like a match made in heaven. A reasonably cheap and powerful computer
with no base of peripherals and a bunch of peoples with a lot of 'if only....'
ideas for it. Would it be reasonable for Atari to make an effort to spread the
description of the Portfolio's peripheral interface in every available public
location (like comp.sys.atari.st / INFOATARI16, for instance)? That way all
the bright kids who need class projects for their advanced electronics lab
courses next year will get plenty of time to stew over ideas. Maybe some pros
who would have gotten around to requesting the docs from Atari "Next week"
will get a start thinking about possibilities. Just a thought.
Steve J.caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero) (05/06/89)
In article <8365@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: > Would it be reasonable for Atari to make an effort to spread the >description of the Portfolio's peripheral interface in every available public >location (like comp.sys.atari.st / INFOATARI16, for instance)? A better idea: spread it in MS-DOS machine-related groups on public and commercial networks-- that way people who are accustomed to working with DOS-based machines and that weird architecture, who would probably be better at designing for the Portfolio, could make use of that information... Roy Good's posting about the possibility of connecting to a PC bus also opens some interesting avenues... I picture the Portfolio as a "drop-in" brain for a desktop machine that relies on the Portfolio for most stuff but offers a full keyboard/display/drives etc... (not to suggest that it's in the works, just that it might be an interesting thing to produce. Idle fantasies again...). -Antonio Romero romero@lexis.princeton.edu