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+title: Atari ST BOOK
+categories:
+- Computers
+types:
+- Portable
+origins:
+- U.S.A.
+years:
+- '1990'
+cpus:
+- Motorola MC 68000
+params:
+  name: ST BOOK
+  company: /companies/atari
+  company_name: Atari
+  specs:
+  - label: NAME
+    value: ST BOOK
+  - label: MANUFACTURER
+    value: Atari
+  - label: TYPE
+    value: Portable
+  - label: ORIGIN
+    value: U.S.A.
+  - label: YEAR
+    value: '1990'
+  - label: KEYBOARD
+    value: full stroke keyboard
+  - label: CPU
+    value: Motorola MC 68000
+  - label: SPEED
+    value: 8 MHz
+  - label: RAM
+    value: 1 or 4 MB (no extension)
+  - label: ROM
+    value: 256 KB
+  - label: TEXT MODES
+    value: 40 x 25 / 80 x 25
+  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
+    value: 640 x 400
+  - label: COLORS
+    value: monochrome LCD display
+  - label: SOUND
+    value: three channels, 8 octaves
+  - label: I/O PORTS
+    value: Centronics, RS232c, Floppy Disk, internal IDE Hard disk, Midi In/Out, Dock Station connector
+  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
+    value: One 2.5'' disk drive
+  - label: OS
+    value: TOS + GEM
+  - label: POWER SUPPLY
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: PRICE
+    value: Unknown
+  tabs:
+  - photos
+  - hardware
+  - emulators
+  - links
+  - docs
+  photos:
+  - title: ATARI ST BOOK
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: '[Thomas Conté](http://www.pas.net)'
+    image: null
+  - title: LEFT SIDE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: RIGHT SIDE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: MOUSEPAD
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: REAR CONNECTORS
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: BOTTOM
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  hardware:
+  - title: SF-354
+    subtitle: Single density disk-drive
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_sf354-diskdrive_1.jpg
+  - title: SF-314
+    subtitle: Disk-drive
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st-disk-drive_sf314.jpg
+  - title: CUMANA DRIVE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_520_cumanadrive_1.jpg
+  - title: SUPRADRIVE
+    subtitle: 20 Mb hard-disk
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_supradrive_20mb.jpg
+  - title: 170MB QUANTUM HARD-DRIVE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: This unit has an ICD Host Adapter.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_quamtum_hd170.jpg
+  - title: ATARI MEGAFILE 30
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: This hard-drive has a 30Mb capacity.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_megafile30_1.jpg
+  - title: INSIDE THE MEGAFILE 30
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: |-
+      **(1)** Seagate MFM 30 MB hard-disk Type ST-238\
+      **(2)** Power supply\
+      **(3)** Logical board\
+      **(4)** Power and disk access LED's
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_insidemegafile_1.jpg
+  - title: ATARI UNIVERSAL MODEM
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: |-
+      The SX212 modem was one of the rare Atari peripherals that could be used with all the Atari computers range, from the 400/800 series up to the Falcon. It had both the Atari I/O ports for the 8-bit systems and a standard RS-232 connector for ST's
+
+      It was a 300/1200 baud modem compatible with the well-known Hayes 'AT' commands.\
+      Cable and software was sold separately, depending of the computer used.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_520_modemsx212_1.jpg
+  - title: SML-804
+    subtitle: Laser printer
+    text: |-
+      The SLM-804 was actually a Kyocera F1000 printer but without neither on-board processor and memory nor buttons other than the on/off switch. It was first delivered with the Mega ST but could be connected on all of the ST series computers through a dedicated interface box.\
+      The printer used the processing power and the RAM memory of the ST computer for printing at 8 pages per minute and 300 DPI. The paper tray held 250 sheets.
+
+      Thanks to **Francois Michaud** who donated us this printer.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_slm804printer_s1.jpg
+  - title: SMLC-804
+    subtitle: Laser printer interface
+    text: This interface allowed the SML-804 printer to be connected to any Atari ST holding at least 1 MB RAM.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_slmcinterface_s1.jpg
+  emulators:
+  - title: Pacifist !
+    url: http://www.pacifist.fatal-design.com/
+    platform: MS DOS
+    text: Pretty good emulator
+  - title: Gemulator
+    url: http://www.emulators.com/gemul8r.htm
+    platform: Windows
+    text: ''
+  - title: MagiCPC
+    url: http://www.application-systems.de/magicpc/index.html
+    platform: Windows
+    text: ''
+  - title: SainT
+    url: http://saint.atari.org
+    platform: Windows
+    text: The best Atari ST Emulator !
+  - title: Steem
+    url: http://steem.atari.st/
+    platform: Windows
+    text: Excellent emulator for 1040/520 STE !
+  - title: Tos2Win
+    url: http://www.aixit.com/tos2win/
+    platform: Windows
+    text: A good Atari GEM Emulator !
+  - title: MagiCMac
+    url: http://www.application-systems.de/magicmac/index.html
+    platform: Apple
+    text: ''
+  - title: NoSTalgia & PowerST
+    url: http://users.skynet.be/sky39147/
+    platform: Apple
+    text: ''
+  - title: STonX Homepage
+    url: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stonx.html
+    platform: Unix / Linux
+    text: ''
+  - title: Atari ST Emulator
+    url: http://www.atari-st.lovely.net/
+    platform: Other platform
+    text: Written in Java !
+  - title: ARAnyM
+    url: HTTP://ARANYM.ATARI.ORG
+    platform: Multiplatform
+    text: Multiplatform project
+  - title: Hatari
+    url: http://hatari.sourceforge.net/
+    platform: Multiplatform
+    text: Hatari is an Atari ST emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library. More precisely, Hatari is an adaption of the WinSTon source code to the SDL library.
+  links:
+  - title: Atari & Commodore Home Computer Museum
+    url: http://www.best.com/~hmk/
+    text: ''
+  - title: Atari Music Network
+    url: http://www.atarimusic.net/
+    text: Atari Music Network welcomes and celebrates all vintage digital musicians no matter what their computer
+  - title: Atari ST Demo History
+    url: http://wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~brandtf/ataridemos.html
+    text: ''
+  - title: Atari ST Download Area
+    url: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/PDA/atari.shtml
+    text: Atari 400/800/XL/XE & ST/TT/Falcon Software download page
+  - title: ATARI.ORG
+    url: http://www.atari.org/
+    text: Looking for something on any Atari machine ? Follow the links !
+  - title: Dead Hackers Society
+    url: http://www.dhs.nu/
+    text: Atari demo scene
+  - title: Little Green Desktop
+    url: http://www.atari.st/
+    text: Largest Atari ST ressource!
+  - title: Medusa computer
+    url: http://www.kingx.com/kingx/medusa/thes.html
+    text: You can still buy an Atari ST family clone computer
+  - title: MiNTOS Distribution
+    url: http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/mintos.html
+    text: ''
+  - title: Musique.Atari.Org
+    url: HTTP://MUSIQUE.ATARI.ORG
+    text: Web site dedicated to the ATARI and the Music...
+  - title: PLOPBOX - Atari music archive and jukebox
+    url: http://www.plopbox.net/
+    text: listen to atari tunes directly from your browser
+  - title: Polish Atari Wikipedia
+    url: http://atariki.krap.pl
+    text: A lot of info about Atari (in polish)
+  - title: ST Anwender Bern
+    url: http://my.blackpoint.ch/stab/
+    text: Atari ST Usergroup Bern (Swiss)
+  - title: The Atari Historical Society
+    url: http://www.atarimuseum.com/
+    text: The complete history of Atari Arcade and Home games and computers. Complete site with pictures, commercials (streaming), and full text articles. Amazing site !
+  - title: The Atari ST Quick FAQ
+    url: http://www.megacom.net/~q-funk/ST/
+    text: ''
+  - title: The Atari WebRing Homepage
+    url: http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=atari
+    text: Useful !
+  - title: The Ultimate ATARI Resource
+    url: http://www.atari.org
+    text: ''
+  - title: What is TOS
+    url: http://www.vanc.igs.net/~roughley/tos_main.htm
+    text: ''
+  - title: Index of -~archive-atari-
+    url: http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/
+    text: ''
+  - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
+    url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
+    text: French forum
+  docs:
+  - title: ATARI 520 ST OWNER'S MANUAL
+    url: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/atarist/index.htm
+    cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/atari_520st_user_doc.jpg
+    text: |-
+      [**ATARI 520 ST OWNER'S MANUAL**](http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/atarist/index.htm)written by Atari
+
+       compiled/archived by Daves Old Computers\
+       type of document : PDF\
+       size : 5 Mb\
+       source : [Daves Old Computers](http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield)
+
+      **... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :**
+  comments:
+  - author: herve warin (France)
+    date: Monday 5th December 2011
+    text: |-
+      I am the proud owner of this marvel. At my knowledge, only 47 models have been built for sale in France (AZERTY keyboard ?), all distributed by "Informatique $ Nature". This is mainly a prototype material.
+
+      I can confirm that the same interface port can be used for a ACSI/DMA device or a dedicated floppy.
+
+      I still own the dedicated DMA cable but I don''t remember to ever have used it.
+
+      I still own the dedicated external 1.44 floppy drive that was also distributed by "Informatique $ Nature".
+
+      The ST-BOOK appendum describes the following options :\
+      \- External floppy disk (no mention of 1.44Mb)\
+      \- Midi cables (from mini-DIN to DIN)\
+      \- Serial transfer cable (similar as null modem but I don''t own the original)\
+      \- Keyboard cable (unfortunately, I don''t own it) to connect a MegaST, MegaSTE or TT keyboard - It disables "vector pad" and allow the use of normal mouse or joystick\
+      \- Cardrige port\
+      \- Mouse/Joystick interface
+
+      Currently, original HDD gives weakness symptoms and orginal battery is dead.
+  - author: Andrew (USA)
+    date: Friday 10th September 2010
+    text: 'Link: That dark strip down the left side of the screen did absolutely nothing.'
+  - author: Julio cao (Asturias gijon spaña)
+    date: Wednesday 7th July 2010
+    text: Me interesa todo lo que sea en relacion con ATARI gracias y ATARFOREVER
+  - author: Malcolm Ramage (Huddersfield, UK)
+    date: Thursday 15th April 2010
+    text: |-
+      The ACSI interface was not the same as the one on the ST/TT as it also included the floppy control lines.
+
+      However other than a plastic box, no floppy drive was evr made for this by Atari.
+
+      The long edge connector also had nothing made for it, though it was pin compatible with the expansion connector on the ST Pad (Also never released)
+  - author: Matt (USA)
+    date: Saturday 16th December 2006
+    text: No, it's definately ACSI - it was a butchered-up varient of SCSI. If you wanted to use a SCSI harddrive with an atari, you had to buy a third-party circuitboard to do translation.
+  - author: Link (Hyrule)
+    date: Friday 8th April 2005
+    text: What did that dark strip down the left side of the screen do? Anything?
+  - author: Amir Isa (Malaysia)
+    date: Wednesday 6th April 2005
+    text: |-
+      Erm... I think it's a little error in the text where it says that the external floppy drives were weird and used the same interface as Atari's desktops (ASCI).
+
+      I believe the correct terms is SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) which is still current technology and in use in many high end applications and is in many ways superior to the more common IDE architecture. The terms ASCI is a new one on me but I've heard of something called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange- I think) which is something else entirely.
+
+      Or am I wrong? Can somebody please clarify?
+  - author: Andy Ball (Illinois, USA)
+    date: Thursday 30th September 2004
+    text: |-
+      I just found some answers at another web site.\
+      Size: 36x279x216 mm (A4, 36mm thick)\
+      Weight: approx. 2 Kg\
+      Battery life: 5 hours on seven AA alkaline cells or 10 hours on the optional NiCd battery.
+  - author: Andy Ball (Illinois, USA)
+    date: Thursday 30th September 2004
+    text: |-
+      What are the ST-Book's dimensions?\
+      How much does it weigh?\
+      How long is its battery life?
+  related:
+  - /museum/atari-130-st-260-st
+  - /museum/atari-4160-ste
+  - /museum/atari-520-1040-ste
+  - /museum/atari-520-1040-stf-stfm
+  - /museum/atari-520-st-st-stm
+  - /museum/atari-falcon-030
+  - /museum/atari-falcon-030-microbox
+  - /museum/atari-fx-1-sparrow
+  - /museum/atari-mega-st
+  - /museum/atari-mega-ste
+  - /museum/atari-stacy
+  - /museum/atari-stylus-st-pad
+  - /museum/atari-tt-030
+  oc_id: 283
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609190833/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=283
+    date: '2023-06-09'
+---
+
+After the success of the [Stacy](/museum/atari-stacy/), Atari presented a new portable computer: the ST Book.
+
+It was a rather nice toy: very light, impressive battery life, MIDI ports, battery-saved RAM, etc.
+
+The Hard Disk contains a small Null-Modem program to transfer files (very handy!). It has no internal floppy drive, the external floppy was a weird (and expensive!) unit that used the same interface as Atari's hard disks (ACSI).
+
+Despite its interesting characteristics, and because of the deplorable commercial policy of Atari (I KNOW NUTTZING!), it had no success and only about one thousand units were sold in Europe.
+
+A word of warning: The cases & screen on this computer are VERY FRAGILE! Whatever you do, do not drop this computer, as it probably will shatter!