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6,654 pages: 1,289 machines, 702 software, 460 companies, 64 history, 17 articles, 59 fun. 4,336 media files so far; references to files not downloaded yet are left out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: Atari 520 / 1040 STf / STfm
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Home Computer
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origins:
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- U.S.A.
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years:
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- '1986'
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cpus:
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- Motorola MC 68000
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params:
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name: 520 / 1040 STf / STfm
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company: /companies/atari
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company_name: Atari
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: 520 / 1040 STf / STfm
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Atari
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- label: TYPE
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value: Home Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: U.S.A.
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- label: YEAR
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value: '1986'
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full stroke keyboard with numeric keypad, editing keypad and 10 function keys
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- label: CPU
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value: Motorola MC 68000
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- label: SPEED
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value: 8 mHz
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- label: RAM
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value: 512 KB (up to 4 MB)
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- label: ROM
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value: 32 KB with TOS on disk / 192 KB with TOS on ROM
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: 40 or 80 chars. x 25 lines (bitmapped graphics)
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: 16 colors among 512 (320 x 200) / 4 colors among 512 (640 x 200) / monochrome (640 x 400) this last mode needs a special monitor.
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- label: COLORS
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value: max. 512
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- label: SOUND
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value: 3 voices + 1 noise channel, 8 octaves (Yamaha YM-2149)
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: Cartridge, Midi (in, out), Centronics, RS232c, Hard Disk, Floppy disk, RGB, Joystick, mouse
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: 3.5'' disk-drive
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- label: OS
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value: TOS + GEM
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: Built-in power supply unit
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- hardware
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- emulators
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- links
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- docs
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photos:
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- title: SAME MODELS
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subtitle: ''
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text: The 520STF and 1040STF were same machines, apart from RAM size and floppy disk drive capacity.
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image: null
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- title: LARGE VIEW
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: LEFT & RIGHT SIDES
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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**(1)** Midi In and Out DIN sockets\
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**(2)** ROM cartridges connector.
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image: null
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- title: TWO 520 STF VERSIONS
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subtitle: ''
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text: The top one has 360 KB floppy disk, the bottom one has a 720 KB version.
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image: null
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- title: REAR CONNECTORS
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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From left to right:
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• Serial port dedicated to an external modem\
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• Parallel printer connector\
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• External hard disk drive interface\
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• External floppy disk drive interface (15-pin DIN socket)\
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• Monochrome or RGB monitor DIN socket\
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• Power switch and plug\
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• Reset switch (the grey plastic button is missing)
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image: null
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- title: INSIDE
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subtitle: ''
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text: Like almost all Atari machines, the mainboard, power supply unit and floppy drive are surrounded with a metallic protection against magnetic fields.
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image: null
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- title: 520 STF MAINBOARD
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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**(1)** 512 KB RAM chips (16x41256). Provision is made to upgrade the RAM size to 1 MB\
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**(2)** TOS ROM's (2x32K)\
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**(3)** MMU custom chip\
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**(4)** 68000 CPU, here a Hitachi version\
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**(5)** The Shifter custom video chip is protected by a metallic cover\
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**(6)** Glue custom chip\
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**(7)** Multi-Function Peripheral (MFP) chip\
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**(8)** 2x6850 ACIA chips\
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**(9)** Yamaha sound chipset\
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**(10)** Floppy disk controller chip\
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**(11)** DMA controller chip
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For more information about each custom chip, see the 'Motherboard' picture of the Atari [520ST](/museum/atari-520-st-st-stm/) page.
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image: null
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- title: 1040 MAINBOARD
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subtitle: ''
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text: All the RAM area is populated with 41256 chips.
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image: null
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- title: MAINBOARD CLOSE-UP
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subtitle: ''
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text: This version doesn't hold the TOS in ROM.
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image: null
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- title: 'ATARI 2080 #1'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Just before launching the Mega-ST series, Atari sold little quantities of this unofficial 2MB RAM version called 2080STf. A 4160STf was also planned but never left the Commodore research department.
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Thanks to **Sveto**
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image: null
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- title: 'ATARI 2080 #2'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Atari labels
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Thanks to **Sveto**
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image: null
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adverts:
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- title: U.K. AD. (1986)
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subtitle: ''
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text: In U.K., at 1986 Christmas period, the 1040 STF was sold £799 + VAT for the 12" monochrome version, and £999 + VAT for the 14" colour version.
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image: null
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- title: U.K. AD. (1986)
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Advert said:
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As the American magazine 'Byte' commented, "for some time to come the 1040STF will be the clear leader in price/performance."
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image: null
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- title: FRENCH AD (DEC. 1985)
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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"At the fingertip of the mouse..."
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"... 16/32 bits technology"
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image: null
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- title: U.K. AD. 1989
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Special 520-STFM bundle advert.\
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Advert said:
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There's no catch. We're giving you the Atari 520 STFM and £500 worth of great software titles for just £399.99.\
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The twenty-three super titles include some of the greatest games and three excellent programs which introduce you to the BASIC programming language, computer-created music and the more popular computer applications such as word processing and spreadsheets...
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image: null
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hardware:
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- title: SF-354
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subtitle: Single density disk-drive
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_sf354-diskdrive_1.jpg
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- title: SF-314
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subtitle: Disk-drive
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st-disk-drive_sf314.jpg
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- title: CUMANA DRIVE
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_520_cumanadrive_1.jpg
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- title: SUPRADRIVE
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subtitle: 20 Mb hard-disk
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_supradrive_20mb.jpg
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- title: 170MB QUANTUM HARD-DRIVE
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subtitle: ''
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text: This unit has an ICD Host Adapter.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_quamtum_hd170.jpg
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- title: ATARI MEGAFILE 30
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subtitle: ''
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text: This hard-drive has a 30Mb capacity.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_megafile30_1.jpg
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- title: INSIDE THE MEGAFILE 30
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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**(1)** Seagate MFM 30 MB hard-disk Type ST-238\
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**(2)** Power supply\
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**(3)** Logical board\
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**(4)** Power and disk access LED's
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_insidemegafile_1.jpg
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- title: ATARI UNIVERSAL MODEM
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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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
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It was a 300/1200 baud modem compatible with the well-known Hayes 'AT' commands.\
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Cable and software was sold separately, depending of the computer used.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_520_modemsx212_1.jpg
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- title: SML-804
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subtitle: Laser printer
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text: |-
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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.\
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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.
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Thanks to **Francois Michaud** who donated us this printer.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_slm804printer_s1.jpg
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- title: SMLC-804
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subtitle: Laser printer interface
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text: This interface allowed the SML-804 printer to be connected to any Atari ST holding at least 1 MB RAM.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_slmcinterface_s1.jpg
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emulators:
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- title: Pacifist !
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url: http://www.pacifist.fatal-design.com/
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platform: MS DOS
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text: Pretty good emulator
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- title: Emulators Online
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url: http://www.emulators.com/
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platform: Windows
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text: Demo of Gemulator, a commercial product from BraSoft.
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- title: Gemulator
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url: http://www.emulators.com/gemul8r.htm
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platform: Windows
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text: ''
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- title: MagiCPC
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url: http://www.application-systems.de/magicpc/index.html
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platform: Windows
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text: ''
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- title: Pacifist
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url: http://www.pacifist.fatal-design.com/
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platform: Windows
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text: The best Atari ST emulator
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- title: SainT
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url: http://saint.atari.org
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platform: Windows
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text: The best Atari ST Emulator !
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- title: Steem
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url: http://steem.atari.st/
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platform: Windows
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text: Excellent emulator for 1040/520 STE !
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- title: STonX Homepage
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url: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stemu.html
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platform: Windows
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text: The Atari ST Emulator for Linux/X windows
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- title: Toad Computers' Atari Central
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url: http://www.ataricentral.com/
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platform: Windows
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text: Demo of Magic, a commercial emulator for PC/Windows and Macintosh.
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- title: Tos2Win
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url: http://www.aixit.com/tos2win/
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platform: Windows
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text: A good Atari GEM Emulator !
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- title: TOSBOX Atari emulation homepage
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url: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4448/
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platform: Windows
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text: ''
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- title: WinSTon
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url: http://www.winston.fatal-design.com/
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platform: Windows
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text: An emulator for Win95 / Win NT
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- title: MagiCMac
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url: http://www.application-systems.de/magicmac/index.html
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platform: Apple
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text: ''
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- title: NoSTalgia & PowerST
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url: http://users.skynet.be/sky39147/
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platform: Apple
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text: ''
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- title: NoSTalgia The AtariST Emulator for the Macintosh
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url: http://users.skynet.be/sky39147/
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platform: Apple
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text: ''
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- title: Toad Computers' Atari Central
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url: http://www.ataricentral.com/
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platform: Apple
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text: Demo of Magic, a commercial emulator for PC/Windows and Macintosh.
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- title: STonX Homepage
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url: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stonx.html
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platform: Unix / Linux
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text: ''
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- title: STonX Homepage
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url: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stonx.html
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platform: Unix / Linux
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text: ''
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- title: Atari ST Emulator
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url: http://www.atari-st.lovely.net/
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platform: Other platform
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text: Written in Java !
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- title: ARAnyM
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url: HTTP://ARANYM.ATARI.ORG
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: Multiplatform project
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- title: Hatari
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url: http://hatari.sourceforge.net/
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platform: Multiplatform
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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.
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links:
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- title: Application Systems Heidelberg
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url: http://members.aol.com/ashinfo/index.html
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text: ''
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- title: Atari & Commodore Home Computer Museum
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url: http://www.best.com/~hmk/
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text: ''
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- title: Atari Demo Scene
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url: http://rzserv2.fh-lueneburg.de:8080/Demo_Scene
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text: ''
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- title: Atari game links
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url: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/cache/369/index.html
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text: ''
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- title: Atari Music Network
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url: http://www.atarimusic.net/
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text: Atari Music Network welcomes and celebrates all vintage digital musicians no matter what their computer
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- title: Atari ST Demo History
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url: http://wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~brandtf/ataridemos.html
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text: ''
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- title: Atari ST Download Area
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url: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/PDA/atari.shtml
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text: Atari 400/800/XL/XE & ST/TT/Falcon Software download page
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- title: Atari ST Download Area
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url: http://www.gpfn.sk.ca/Services/PDA/atari.html
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text: ''
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- title: ATARI.ORG
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url: http://www.atari.org/
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text: Looking for something on any Atari machine ? Follow the links !
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- title: Atari-WEB
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url: http://web.cnam.fr/Comp/Atari/
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text: ''
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- title: Calculating Pi and Atari ST-Falcon
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url: http://www.ast.univie.ac.at/~wasi/PI/stuart_lyster/stlib.htm
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text: ''
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- title: CareBears Online
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url: http://hem1.passagen.se/carebear/
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text: ''
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- title: Centek Homepage
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url: http://www.centek.fr
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text: ''
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- title: Dead Hackers Society
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url: http://www.dhs.nu/
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text: Atari demo scene
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- title: Elysium Atari & TOS Compatible Pages
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url: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/aseabrook/a_index.htm
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text: ''
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- title: Emulators Online
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url: http://www.emulators.com/
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text: ''
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- title: Gem programmer's page
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url: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d2cg/gem/
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text: ''
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- title: Little Green Desktop
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url: http://www.atari.st/
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text: Largest Atari ST ressource!
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- title: Medusa computer
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url: http://www.kingx.com/kingx/medusa/thes.html
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text: You can still buy an Atari ST family clone computer
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- title: MiNTOS Distribution
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url: http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/mintos.html
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text: ''
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- title: Musique.Atari.Org
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url: HTTP://MUSIQUE.ATARI.ORG
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text: Web site dedicated to the ATARI and the Music...
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- title: PLOPBOX - Atari music archive and jukebox
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url: http://www.plopbox.net/
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text: listen to atari tunes directly from your browser
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- title: Polish Atari Wikipedia
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url: http://atariki.krap.pl
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text: A lot of info about Atari (in polish)
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- title: ST Anwender Bern
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url: http://my.blackpoint.ch/stab/
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text: Atari ST Usergroup Bern (Swiss)
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- title: The Atari Historical Society
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url: http://www.atarimuseum.com/
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text: The complete history of Atari Arcade and Home games and computers. Complete site with pictures, commercials (streaming), and full text articles. Amazing site !
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- title: The Atari ST Quick FAQ
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url: http://www.megacom.net/~q-funk/ST/
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text: ''
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- title: The Atari WebRing Homepage
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url: http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=atari
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text: Useful !
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- title: The New Funkyware Generation
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url: http://www.megacom.net/~q-funk/
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text: ''
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- title: The Ultimate ATARI Resource
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url: http://www.atari.org
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text: ''
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- title: The Wonderful World of Atari Computing
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url: http://inet.uni-c.dk/~netop/atari.htm
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text: ''
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- title: What is TOS
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url: http://www.vanc.igs.net/~roughley/tos_main.htm
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text: ''
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- title: Atari ST-TT-Falcon030 FTP sites
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url: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~dlms/ftplinks.html
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text: ''
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- title: Index of -~archive-atari-
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url: http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/
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text: ''
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- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
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url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
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text: French forum
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docs:
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- title: ATARI 520 ST OWNER'S MANUAL
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url: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/atarist/index.htm
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cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/atari_520st_user_doc.jpg
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text: |-
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[**ATARI 520 ST OWNER'S MANUAL**](http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/atarist/index.htm)written by Atari
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compiled/archived by Daves Old Computers\
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type of document : PDF\
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size : 5 Mb\
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source : [Daves Old Computers](http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield)
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**... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :**
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comments:
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- author: Aex Tb (Italy)
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date: Saturday 21st August 2021
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text: I use a 1040 st as main sequencer with cubase 3.0... He never miss, he never crash... When i switch to pc windows based cubase i miss it soo much because soo many system crash... Now made music with pc windows is good but some time ago is a nightmare.
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- author: Brosen (Switzerland)
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date: Friday 17th March 2017
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text: Green Day is a famous country singer, so don''t miss the possibility to visit $a href$http://greendaytourdates.com/$Green Day concert dates$/a$
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- author: M-C (France)
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date: Monday 10th February 2014
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text: |-
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Hello,
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20 yers ago, I made an modification inside my 1040 stf : now, it could work as a PC (win 95) or MAC (Sys 7.5 french)... Just for fun !\
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After 20 years, I''d like to wake up my sleeping beauty nd show it working to my kids...\
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Who''s got SCSI or IDE adaptator on asci or cartridge connector ?\
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I''m looking for schematic or buying the adaptator.
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- author: Doug T.
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date: Wednesday 26th December 2012
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text: Hi - yes if anyone has a 1040 ST I would definitely like to buy it! I have some old 1040 ST disks that I would like to get information from, let me know you can email me doug@bluechairmusic.com, thanks.
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- author: Jamey Orsborn (USA)
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date: Thursday 6th December 2012
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text: |-
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I also have an old 1040 ST, along with monitor, mouse, external 30MB hard drive. Anyone interested in buying?
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Thanks!
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- author: Paul S (UK)
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date: Tuesday 7th February 2012
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The 520STFM was my 3rd computer (after previously having a Commodore C16 then a ZX Spectrum 128+). I had quite a good setup, the standard mouse was replaced with a far more accurate and comfortable Naksha model, as well as a Blitz Turbo external floppy drive and a Citizen 9-pin colour printer.\
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I did a few bits of graphics and fonts for some lesser know demo groups and even a bit of Sound Tracker music with TCB Tracker, I remember getting an assembler routine that could play the mod files and incorporated that into an existing program that displayed a Spectrum 512 colour image with a scrolling message! I was so impressed with that!
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- author: Mike (usa-texas)
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date: Saturday 1st May 2010
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text: I have an atari st 1040 with color monitor sc1224 and mouse. Great condition, has been stored for 12 years. I have all manuals....how much can i sell it for?
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- author: Thomsonicus (Poland!)
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date: Saturday 21st July 2007
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text: heh, I broke quite a couple of joysticks while playing Super Street Fighter 2 on my friend's 520STfm :)
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- author: Daniel (Sweden)
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date: Monday 27th June 2005
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Ahh i got a 520stm myself..still got it in its original box..unfortently its not working due to some damage on a chip and also the floppy is not working and got no mouse.\
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i upgraded it to 1mb and had around 1000+ discs with games and all kind of programs..have a few hundred left maybe less ;) I also got my cousins 1040STE..its working but have some damage keys on keyboard, and have no mouse. Damn i miss the good ol times :) ATARI RUULES FU\*\* AMIGA ;))
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- author: Robert N. (Kansas)
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date: Thursday 14th April 2005
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I had a 1040STf in high school. It was a great system, and that Mac emulator worked better than you would expect. We had Macs at school, and my friend and I used my 1040ST at home to run the Macintosh verison of Pagemaker to product our school newspaper. In fact, I remember it running a bit better on my 1040ST than it did on the Mac SE at school.
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I went all out on my ST...had both monitors and a little switch to switch between them. I also had the Supra 20 megabyte hard drive. I think that thing cost me over $700.00 when I bought it in maybe 1997 or 1998. Ouch.
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- author: Henrik Jakobsen (Denmark)
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date: Tuesday 3rd February 2004
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text: All of my buddies had an Amiga500. I had an Atari 520 Stfm (bought it in '89). I still have it, but the external floppydrive is malfunction, so I cant use it, though I have the FD-controller interface yet. I remember the good old days, when ST forum zine was around the shops in Denmark... I also recently found my joysticks---> what a great quality they was made of! compared to daily models. Imagine how it would be like, to play summer games on new ones!
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- author: Mark P (bangor uk)
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date: Tuesday 14th January 2003
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Not sure how I ended back here, but a kweschun. Anyone know how the keyboard/mouse/joystick reading chip can be damaged and how to put it right? A local PC shop bizarrely had an ST-TV scart lead as one of the offered products on it's website, so now my atari is alive again in full RGB sharpness :) only half of the discs still work, but hey, it's enough. problem is i get maybe 5 or 10 minutes into a game, if that, and then all the inputs stop working. Gahh!!
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Looks like the only two games I can play from now on are Dynablaster and Gauntlet II, with the printer port joystick dongle..
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- author: Jan K (CZ)
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date: Friday 17th May 2002
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text: |-
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the Atari has 640x400 monochrome,\
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640x200 with 4 colors and 320x200 with\
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16 colors. Both color resolution are\
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displaylable on TV .
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- author: Mark P (Bangor, UK)
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date: Friday 5th April 2002
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Mmm, still got one of these (1040) sitting in a cupboard waiting for my soldering skills to improve enough to finally make up a TV connection lead (tricky tricky) as the last known phillips monitor in the world burnt out years ago ^\_^ Fond memories, wish I could get it going and work out a way to sync it with my palmpilot.. a machine with twice the processor speed and memory! .....hrm, hands up anyone who remembers the multitude of ST video capture devices? wonder why you can't do it on a palm... :)
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On the monitor note, the official site specs box is exactly right - 320x200 in 16 colours, 640x200 in 4 colours (both from 512 palette) and 640x400 in black and white with a special monitor (why the hell TV compatibility for that wasn't available baffles me). You could stretch beyond that to higher resolutions and colours - particularly 320x240 in "512" colours - but only with very fancy programming!\
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chow...
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- author: Orbus (Midwest.)
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date: Thursday 7th March 2002
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text: |-
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The 'Cartridge that could turn it into a Mac' was created by David Small, of 'Small Computing', and came in two flavors:\
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The original was called the 'Magic Sac', and was nothing more than a holder for two boot ROMS from a Macintosh - Everything else was done in software, and the MS wasen't capable of reading Mac Disks (They provided a transfer program that allowed you to use a macintosh via serial cables to transfer disks.)\
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The second version was called the 'Spectre GCR', and had a loop-through for the external floppy drives that enabled external floppy drives to read Mac floppies, along with much improved emulation.\
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As far as I remember, a monochrome ST with 4mb ram (System address limit) could run System 7.5 - but, with less than four MB ram, you can imagine how poorly it ran it.
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- author: statusbar (Vancouver)
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date: Sunday 3rd March 2002
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text: Yes, the Atari ST had 640x200 16 color graphics mode as well as 640x400 monochrome and a 320x200 256 color mode. The monochrome monitor and color monitors were seperate, and the resolutions available to you were dependant on the type of monitor you had. I used to have both.
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- author: PvK (Seattle)
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date: Friday 1st February 2002
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text: |-
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640 x 200 graphics mode? I don't think so. 640 x 400 yes, 640 x 200, no.
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PvK
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related:
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- /museum/atari-130-st-260-st
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- /museum/atari-4160-ste
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- /museum/atari-520-1040-ste
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- /museum/atari-520-st-st-stm
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- /museum/atari-falcon-030
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- /museum/atari-falcon-030-microbox
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- /museum/atari-fx-1-sparrow
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- /museum/atari-mega-st
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- /museum/atari-mega-ste
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- /museum/atari-st-book
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- /museum/atari-stacy
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- /museum/atari-stylus-st-pad
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- /museum/atari-tt-030
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oc_id: 25
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230406043136/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=25
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date: '2023-04-06'
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The Atari 520 and 1040 STf were the direct successors of the [Atari 260 ST and Atari 520 ST](/museum/atari-520-st-st-stm/). In fact, they had the same technical characteristics except from built-in floppy drive (hence the **f** of STf).
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The 3.5" floppy disk drive has been integrated with the power supply into the computer. The early first versions of the Atari 520 STf had a RAM based Operating System (they have a 32 KB ROM), this ROM will be quiclky replaced by a 192 KB ROM which holds all the operating system (called TOS 1.0).
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An enhanced version of the Atari 520 STf was launched a few months later : the **Atari 1040 STf** to replace the Atari 520+ : It also had the same characteristics as the 520 STf except its memory (1 MB instead of the 512 KB) and the floppy disk drive : it used 3.5" double side disks (720 KB).\
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Not long after the launch of the 1040 STf, the 520 STf would be "unofficially" equipped with 720 KB floppy disk drives.\
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There was also a **STfM** model with a built-in floppy (the f) and an RF Modulator (the M).
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