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         No 1      April 7, 1995

Portfolio in the Czech Republic

There is a PF club that provides user services instead of Atari Corp. or dealers who are dead in this country.

Contact:

Portfolio
252 45 posta ZVOLE
tel: +42 2 99 61 894

INTERNET:
sedlakj@pedf.cuni.cz

What is new for Portfolio?

HARDWARE:

• PortWalk - tape recorder interface
• Enables to save and load files onto any tape recorder cassettes. It is very handy, and unlike 8-bit era of "tape recording", this interface is very reliable thanks to error detecting code.
• 128 KB RAM CARD
  
• Atari cards are very expansive - the RAM card we developed uses one Low-Low Power chip and CR 2025 lithium battery (plus some diodes). The assumed life expectancy of the battery at least 2 years.
• 25 pin parallel interface
  
• As there are big problems with Atari dealers in Europe, we decided to produce 25 pin Centronics (Parallel) Interface. It is a bit smaller than original interface and consumes twice less energy.
• FolioDrive - 3,5" floppy disk unit with included parallel interface and battery pack
  
• It was specially developed for Portfolio and enables to read and write 1.44 MB PC diskettes. No cables more needed. You can run files directly from the diskette.

SOFTWARE:

• In February we have finished a graphic version of Portfolio BIOS and DOS. This means that Portfolio can display any character using direct access to the LCD driver. Thus Portfolio can be used in c
• Genuine leather case with a battery pocket Protects Portfolio against dust and other "evils". One built-in pocket for identity card or passport, another pocket for 3 AA batteries. Full handwork.

Things under development:

• Upgrade your PF to 512 KB RAM!!
• We are going to upgrade Portfolios to 512 KB of system RAM
• 60*10 character display
  
• Another aim of ours is to make Portfolio display 60*8 characters using 8*4 pixel fonts. This willhe new driver will be working constantly with all files.

What we want:

• We are looking for Portfolio users in POLAND, HUNGARY, RUSSIA. We want to offer them the new BIOS with their characters.
• We are looking for any Portfolio activities in the world.
  
• We plan to develop following peripherals, provided there are enough Portfolio users to be interested in them and to buy them:
  
• new version of FolioDrive 3.5 inch FDD unit with parallel
• any PF fans that want to join us
  
• any PF users who are able to develop new soft
  
• information about: Re:Port, Portfolio Connection Newsletter, etc.
  
• any kind of emotional, mental and other support
  
• any dealer that is willing to go on with PF stuff and wants to sell our products
  

How to get the described things

We hope that TOAD COMPUTERS will distribute all our products in the USA and Canada.

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Novell DOS 7.0 and IBM OS/2 user              Fred Horvat 
MultiTOS user, have STacy will travel         Free-Net Atari Portfolio Sigop 
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