Portfolio palmtop

8bit8bit WA
edited October 2004 in Hardware
I was watching Terminator 2 the other day and noticed the character John Connor using a small piece of Atari hardware to work out the pin no. for a stolen credit card and steal cash.
It looked interesting so I went to the Atari museum website and found out it was their palmtop computer the Portfolio, quite a neat little device for its day. Apparently the world's first palmtop (1989) running an 8088 chip at 4 mhz. :cool:

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

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  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    8bit wrote:
    I was watching Terminator 2 the other day and noticed the character John Connor using a small piece of Atari hardware to work out the pin no. for a stolen credit card and steal cash.
    It looked interesting so I went to the Atari museum website and found out it was their palmtop computer the Portfolio, quite a neat little device for its day. Apparently the world's first palmtop (1989) running an 8088 chip at 4 mhz. :cool:

    http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/pccomputers/portfolio.html
    It was awesome in it's time.. :cool:

    What's worse is that my Tungsten T3 has a faster processor than my first PC ;D
  • 8bit8bit WA
    edited October 2004
    Yeah, it's the relentless march of time. I used my 1992 386 PC to go on the net in 1999 and that had 20mhz, and an 80MB hard drive. I think Bill Gates once said that if cars advanced like computers a Rolls Royce would be as cheap as a tube of toothpaste. :)
    I have now heard that someone overclocked one of those Portfolios so it ran at 6mhz, but it drained the battery supply badly.
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