Portfolio news No 2

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· 2 years ago

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         No 2      May 15, 1995

Hello all PF fans everywhere!!!!

There are some more news again for old good Portfolio.

Hottest NEWS from the TOAD Computers.

New Portfolios still available!!
You can buy the 1MB CARD for PF!!

New PF                     $200 
1MB RAM/FLASH CARD         $179 
PC Card drive              $79 
110V AC adapter            $10 
Portfolio Books            $17

Contact:

e-mail toad@charm.net
fax + 1 410 544 1329

First of all, there are now more than 45 PF fans that have contacted our PF club via Internet. And it is a nice number.

Well, so it seems that PF has not died completely. I do not know the total number of all Portfolios in the world. And I am sure that no one knows how many of them are still being used. But let's try a small estimation:

Maybe 500 000 PFs were made. If 3/4 were dead by now still about 125 000 PFs would be living.

If only one in ten (1/10) PF users was interested in novelties, there are 12 500 people who want new things. And it seems worth making new soft and hard for them.

Well the greatest problem seems to be the access to the PF users.
Those who are on the NET have no problem getting soft, texts and ordering new hardware. But most of the people in the outer world will never get in touch with our activities.

If you know any PF users who cannot join the NET, please make a copy of this text on your printer and distribute it.

Write to our magazine!!!

If you have any ideas, comments, etc. that seem to interest other PF users, send e-mail to us. We will include your message into new issue of the newsletter.

If you decide to write, please identify the SUBJECT so that it is easy to recognize it from other e-mail.

Example:

SUBJECT "PF NEWs: list of soft available from X.Y."

There is a steady demand for new things and especially for peripherals.
The reason is simple. A "dead" Atari dealer told me that about 10 times more PF units were sold than cards, interfaces, card readers.

It seems very funny that our club that was originally meant to be a non-profit organization, is now running hardware production.

I asked at the Czech Customs Office and found that there is no special regulation for export of electronics.

So it is possible now to get all the things we have for PF

Here is the list:

CODE       description          price in CZC            note 
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HPC 010    new PF 128k RAM              5800 
HPC 011    new PF 512k RAM              8200 
HPC 102    Atari serial interface       1900 
HPC 202    Atari 64k RAM card           1900 
HPC 104    256k Memory expansion+       2900 
HPC 301    PC card reader               2800 

HPD 300    parallel interface           1400 
HPD 400    128KB RAM card               2300 
HPD 500    FDD unit 1,44 MB             5800 
           + 25pin par. interface 
HPD 600    PortWalk tape recorder        700 
           interface 
HPD 103    Leather case for PF           500 
HPD 200    Portfolio Tech. Guide         400 
           120pgs, English + diskette 
HPD 203    Portfolio Programmier Praxis  400 
           345pgs, German + diskette 
HPD 700    Upgrade your RAM to 512 KB   3500 
HPD 801    60 pin PF BUS connector       300 
HPD 803    hardware adaptation for       700 
           permanent NiCd usage

How to order the products

Decide what you want to get. It seems better to find some PF friends and share the expenditures on charges for sending the stuff.
Send us your "order"

by e-mail tosedlakj@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz
by fax to+ 42 2 29 51 86

We will contact you back, telling if the products are currently available and stating the total price in CZ.

(total price + shipping charges).
Current rate: 1 USD makes 29 CZ crowns

Send the money in USD or DEM to our bank account

account no. 770252-028/0800
at Ceska Sporitelna Praha 2

After receiving a note from bank, we will send the ordered things directly to you.

What we are looking for:

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

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This issue of Portfolio News was published on May 15, 1995.
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Special greetings to:

Don Messerli - for his soft and graphics
BJ Gleason - for PBASIC and tons of other things
S. Spoelstra - for his BASIC, and others
Tomas Dusek - Go on developing the hardware!
Martin & Milan Hrdlicka - the authors of new graphic BIOS

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