Atari Portfolio
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In 1989 DIP Research, a Surrey-based company, designed the world's first IBM compatible pocket computer, the Pocket PC. Soon after it was sold under license by Atari as the Portfolio. The Atari Portfolio is often credited with the title of the first palmtop computer. It originally sold for $399.95. The Atari Portfolio featured the Intel 80C88 processor that ran at 4.92MHz. Its operating system DIP-DOS, or DIP Operating System 2.11, was a MS-DOS compatible operating system. It had 128KB of RAM and 256KB of ROM. It had a monochrome 240 × 64 pixels or 40 characters × 8 lines LCD screen. The Portfolio was powered by three AA batteries, which Atari claimed would power the Portfolio for six - eight weeks. It had a built-in memory card drive for ROM and RAM cards. The Portfolio had six built-in applications - Worksheet (Lotus 1-2-3 compatible), Editor, Diary, Address Book, Calculator, and Setup. It also came with a ROM card that included Portfolio File Manager and Tutorial software. This example in our collection is model HPC-004, which means it has ROM version 1.056.
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