whitten@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (05/04/90)
In article <23540@cc.usu.edu>, SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) writes: > In article <893@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood) writes: >> Regarding the portfolio, I have been looking at those little things as a >> roamer computer for me to use when I am away from the terminals at school. >> Unfortunately, I also need a few other functions out of any computer I get >> at this time. One of them is to get a computer with which I could run MIDI >> software (thus saving me all kinds of money on a Q80 sequencer I have been >> looking at buying to go with my K1 II synthesizer). > > Given that the serial port is not hardware compatible with a PC and that the > IBM ROM BIOS does not allow you to set the baud rate to the really strange > one used by MIDI, I seriously doubt that any PC MIDI sequencer would have > a chance of running on the Portfolio. Yeah. What you really need to pick up is the STacy. They're already available in many larger music stores as "portable midi." It's basically a portable Atari ST. Except the I think the current version being sold has more memory and a internal hard drive. All of which are pretty much needed if you plan on doing any midi projects of length. Thanks, Chris ============================================================================== WHITTEN@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU Chris Whittenburg, Univ. of Kansas WHITTEN@UKANVAX.bitnet Electrical Engineering ==============================================================================