Comments on: Eee PC Review (and reminiscing about the Portfolio) http://csixty4.com/archives/782 New ideas. Vintage technology. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: My experience with Ubuntu-eee | csixty4 http://csixty4.com/archives/782/comment-page-1#comment-6675 My experience with Ubuntu-eee | csixty4 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:20:47 +0000 http://csixty4.com/?p=782#comment-6675 [...] thought I was a good boy for installing all of Asus’s updates to my EeePC 701, which I’ve used for six months without a problem.  But, one of the more recent updates left [...] [...] thought I was a good boy for installing all of Asus’s updates to my EeePC 701, which I’ve used for six months without a problem.  But, one of the more recent updates left [...]

]]> By: James Hernon http://csixty4.com/archives/782/comment-page-1#comment-3996 James Hernon Sun, 04 May 2008 11:32:57 +0000 http://csixty4.com/?p=782#comment-3996 The Atari Portfolio was the first miniature handheld (the size of a VHS casette approx). It does weigh too much and if you have small fingers you can touch type on the device. I just enquired from Best Electronics in America and they have some RAM packs 256K for the Atari Portfolio so I should be able to get 640K into the machine. Well I purchased the Atari Portfolio in 1989 for £199 and for my bucks I got a portable with 128K a parallel port and some Apps: Editor, Lotus 123 Compatible Spreadsheet, Calculator, Diary and Address book. I had given away my original Atari Portfollio away a long time ago and recently purchased one of EBAY for £7.25. I will hopefully be doing some retro programming for DOS 2.11 and trying to get the little thing to act as a webserver and hook it up to the internet somehow. (I can but try). The EEPC The difference in 20 years is now for £199.00 you get a machine that can do a lot more work. Who knows what people will be getting in another 20 years for the same price. I am going to have a lot of fun trying to get the Atari Portfolio to act as a web server. Doing the same on the EEPC would probable be easy peasy. But computers were fun in the eighties and the software was not bloated taking up MEGS of ROM but today you get great graphics and sound and interconnectivity plus GIGS of storage on those litte SD cards and USB sticks. So I still woud be happier with the modern computers and things have moved on in terms of speed and capabilities. I hope to be buying an Asus EEPC with 3 months. The Atari Portfolio was the first miniature handheld (the size of a VHS casette approx). It does weigh too much and if you have small fingers you can touch type on the device. I just enquired from Best Electronics in America and they have some RAM packs 256K for the Atari Portfolio so I should be able to get 640K into the machine.

Well I purchased the Atari Portfolio in 1989 for £199 and for my bucks I got a portable with 128K a parallel port and some Apps: Editor, Lotus 123 Compatible Spreadsheet, Calculator, Diary and Address book. I had given away my original Atari Portfollio away a long time ago and recently purchased one of EBAY for £7.25. I will hopefully be doing some retro programming for DOS 2.11 and trying to get the little thing to act as a webserver and hook it up to the internet somehow. (I can but try).

The EEPC
The difference in 20 years is now for £199.00 you get a machine that can do a lot more work. Who knows what people will be getting in another 20 years for the same price.

I am going to have a lot of fun trying to get the Atari Portfolio to act as a web server. Doing the same on the EEPC would probable be easy peasy.

But computers were fun in the eighties and the software was not bloated taking up MEGS of ROM but today you get great graphics and sound and interconnectivity plus GIGS of storage on those litte SD cards and USB sticks. So I still woud be happier with the modern computers and things have moved on in terms of speed and capabilities. I hope to be buying an Asus EEPC with 3 months.

]]> By: Bookmarks Tagged Portfolio http://csixty4.com/archives/782/comment-page-1#comment-2867 Bookmarks Tagged Portfolio Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:41:12 +0000 http://csixty4.com/?p=782#comment-2867 [...] bookmarks tagged portfolio EeePc Review (and reminiscing about the Portfolio) saved by 1 others     orgasimicCookie bookmarked on 12/30/07 | [...] [...] bookmarks tagged portfolio EeePc Review (and reminiscing about the Portfolio) saved by 1 others     orgasimicCookie bookmarked on 12/30/07 | [...]

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