Micom 2000
Veteran Member
I just recently "won" an Ebay offering for 128k, 64k, cards and serial port adapter for my PoFo.
I had a parallell adapter I bought from an Atari dealer years ago (1995)who was going out of business, in anticipation of eventually acquiring a Portfolio. Last year I finally acquired one and have added a Memory Expander as well as a program from a guy in Germany to interface an Omega Zip Drive. I did need however a memory card/disk drive to save data should the batteries die. I only had the EPROMed Disk manager/tutorial card and carrying around the wobbly plug-in Memory Expander or Zip-drive didn't make my PoFo very portable.
As it turned out, the vendor sent me a Portfolio to PC card drive/ with ISA 8-bit board interface and a 128k memory card. I can't complain and I do have a decent memory card drive which allows me to access the card directly rather than using the slower parallell adapter.
I'm a retro-computer kind of guy and the PoFo can serve my everyday needs. A GPS receiver add-on would be good in case I get lost in the woods or on a lake, and perhaps if I get a serial adapter it might be compatible to an older Delorme.
I acquired a Cassiopia a while back figuring I could use it for my simple needs and was vastly dissappointed. One of the downers of most newer handhelds is that they gear themselves to the busy business executives or else include so many extras they're unusable. And with the Casio, it has no keyboard, only an awkward stylus which sometimes worked.
Retro is good. Sure beats hell out of the constant maintenance I do on my somewhat outdated 700 mhz P3.
Lawrence
I had a parallell adapter I bought from an Atari dealer years ago (1995)who was going out of business, in anticipation of eventually acquiring a Portfolio. Last year I finally acquired one and have added a Memory Expander as well as a program from a guy in Germany to interface an Omega Zip Drive. I did need however a memory card/disk drive to save data should the batteries die. I only had the EPROMed Disk manager/tutorial card and carrying around the wobbly plug-in Memory Expander or Zip-drive didn't make my PoFo very portable.
As it turned out, the vendor sent me a Portfolio to PC card drive/ with ISA 8-bit board interface and a 128k memory card. I can't complain and I do have a decent memory card drive which allows me to access the card directly rather than using the slower parallell adapter.
I'm a retro-computer kind of guy and the PoFo can serve my everyday needs. A GPS receiver add-on would be good in case I get lost in the woods or on a lake, and perhaps if I get a serial adapter it might be compatible to an older Delorme.
I acquired a Cassiopia a while back figuring I could use it for my simple needs and was vastly dissappointed. One of the downers of most newer handhelds is that they gear themselves to the busy business executives or else include so many extras they're unusable. And with the Casio, it has no keyboard, only an awkward stylus which sometimes worked.
Retro is good. Sure beats hell out of the constant maintenance I do on my somewhat outdated 700 mhz P3.
Lawrence
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