Episode 5 – The Serial Interface

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Box Scans

Front and back:

 

Top and bottom:

 

Sides:

 

Pictures

 

The Portfolio doing its best to imitate a TI-99/4A.  Pictured is the Portfolio (left), memory expansion (middle), serial interface (right):

 

Screen Shots

Running xterm on the Portfolio to transfer files.  I used it extensively to transfer the screen shots:

 

The Serial program running on the Mac:

 

Manual

Atari_Portfolio_Serial_Interface_Manual_1989

 

Links

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio

macOS Serial app: https://www.decisivetactics.com/products/serial/

BoxCat Map Theme: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games/Nameless_the_Hackers_RPG_Soundtrack/BoxCat_Games_-_Nameless-_the_Hackers_RPG_Soundtrack_-_17_Map_Theme

Special thanks goes out to BoxCat Games for the podcast intro music which I adapted from the track “Map Theme” from the album “Nameless: The Hackers RPG” which BoxCat released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.