Portal (computer)

{{Short description|1980 portable microcomputer}}

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| name = Portal

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| image = Micro ordinateur portable le PORTAL de R2E CCMC.jpg

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| developer = François Gernelle

| manufacturer = R2E Micral

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| type = Portable computer

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| release date = {{Start date and age|1980|09}}

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| discontinued = {{End date and age|1983}}

| units sold = Hundreds

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| os = Prologue, Basic Assembly Language (BAL)

| power = 220-volt

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| cpu = Intel 8085

| memory = 64 kB RAM

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| memory card = Floppy disk

| display = 32-character one-line screen

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| dimensions = 45{{resx}}45{{resx}}15{{nbsp}}cm

| weight = {{val|12|u=kg}}

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| CPUspeed = 2 MHz

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Portal R2E CCMC was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the Réalisation et Études électroniques department of the French firm R2E Micral,{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Base de données - R2E Portal |url=https://www.system-cfg.com/detail.php?ident=877 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=System.cfg}} and officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.{{cite web |title=Portal au Sicob |url=http://blog.museeinformatique.fr/attachment/126350/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816012155/http://blog.museeinformatique.fr/attachment/126350/ |archive-date=2017-08-16 |access-date=2017-07-13 |website=blog.museeinformatique.fr}}{{Cite book |last=Lilen |first=Henri |title=la saga du micro-ordinateur}} Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer, was only released eight months later, on 3 April 1981.{{cite web |title=Pièce comptable Portal |url=http://blog.museeinformatique.fr/attachment/126351/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816235552/http://blog.museeinformatique.fr/attachment/126351/ |archive-date=2017-08-16}}{{Cite web |last=Spector |first=Lincoln |date=2010-05-31 |title=A History of Portable Computing |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/197457/History_of_Portable_Computing.html |access-date=2019-04-03 |website=PC World}}

The machine was designed with a focus on payroll and accounting. Several hundred Portal computers were sold between 1980 and 1983.

Extremely rare, no museum has a Portal, and only two are in private collections.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/rouillac/posts/10155683670608824?pnref=story|title=Cet exemplaire en état de marche sera vendu aux enchères le 22 septembre 2017|last=Rouillac|first=Aymeric|website=Facebook |date=2017-08-21}}{{cite web|title=Vente aux enchères du Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré à Tours|url=https://www.rouillac.com/sdoc-677291-c33371575930a08332023a612c8e94c5-artsdesign_rouillac_cccod_22_09_2017.pdf|date=21 August 2017}}

The company R2E Micral is also known to have designed "the earliest commercial, non-kit computer based on a microprocessor", the Micral N.{{Cite web |title=R2E Micral N |url=https://www.system-cfg.com/detail.php?ident=811 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=www.system-cfg.com}} One of these machines was sold for 62,000 euros to Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft (with Bill Gates), by the auctioneer Rouillac on June 11, 2017, for Allen's Seattle museum, Living Computers: Museum + Labs.{{Cite news |url=http://chb44.com/2017/05/micral-n-first-microcomputer-sold-auction-june/ |title=The Micral N, the First Microcomputer, to be Sold at Auction in June |date=2017-05-13 |work=Life in France |access-date=2017-07-26 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/rouillac/posts/10155667610863824 |title=C'est maintenant officiel: Paul G.... - Aymeric Rouillac |website=Facebook}}