CompuServe Thread

Mark: INFO Magazine #20 (May/June 1988) carried this story (p. 100): PORTABLE AMIGA! We've just found out that a portable Amiga *is* under development, but it *won't* come from Commodore. Dynamac, a third-party company that builds Macintosh portables, has begun R&D on a portable Amiga based on the A500. Our source says that Commodore is enthusiastic about the project, and has offered to make special boards to fit the portable case. And, with Apple ready to introduce its own portable Mac, it is said that the folks as Dynamac are enthusiastic about beefing up their line with the portable Amiga model. Details on the machine are unavailable — we called Dynamac, but at this point they are "neither confirming nor denying" the project. Their only comment was: "no comment." Our source says the project is in its early stages, and they are still working out the type of display, memory configuration, number of drives, hard drive options, etc. For reference, Dynamac's Mac portable comes with either a gas plasma or electroluminescent display, 1-4 megs of RAM, and hard drive of up to 40 megs. It retails for $3995 and up. —–INFO #21 (July/August 1988) (p.18) says this in their "Rumor Mill": There's at least *one* portable Amiga in the works: it's being built by Amiga systems software guru Dale Luk for his own personal use. His unit incorporates a custom A500 motherboard, 100 watt Lambda power supply, ethernet card, 1 meg of chip RAM, 2 megs of fast RAM, internal 2400-baud modem, 5" b&w hi-res monitor, single 3.5" floppy, and 170-megabyte hard drive all in an old COmmodore SX-64 portable computer case! He's still shopping for a 5" color monitor that will provide clean 80-column text. Dale estimates the finished prototype unit will cost almost $10,000. —-I, too, am a Model 100 user. It looks as if portable Amigas will be "luggable", expensive and too big for my briefcase. Looks as if the M100 will have to suffice for another few years…