SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) (05/03/90)
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. -- =============================================================================== Roger Ivie 35 S 300 W Logan, Ut. 84321 (801) 752-8633 ===============================================================================