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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Atari ST BOOK	Computers	Portable	U.S.A.	1990	Motorola MC 68000	name company company_name specs tabs photos hardware emulators links docs comments related oc_id source ST BOOK /companies/atari Atari label value NAME ST BOOK label value MANUFACTURER Atari label value TYPE Portable label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1990 label value KEYBOARD full stroke keyboard label value CPU Motorola MC 68000 label value SPEED 8 MHz label value RAM 1 or 4 MB (no extension) label value ROM 256 KB label value TEXT MODES 40 x 25 / 80 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES 640 x 400 label value COLORS monochrome LCD display label value SOUND three channels, 8 octaves label value I/O PORTS Centronics, RS232c, Floppy Disk, internal IDE Hard disk, Midi In/Out, Dock Station connector label value BUILT IN MEDIA One 2.5'' disk drive label value OS TOS + GEM label value POWER SUPPLY Unknown label value PRICE Unknown photos hardware emulators links docs title subtitle text image ATARI ST BOOK [Thomas Conté](http://www.pas.net) null title subtitle text image LEFT SIDE null title subtitle text image RIGHT SIDE null title subtitle text image MOUSEPAD null title subtitle text image REAR CONNECTORS null title subtitle text image BOTTOM null title subtitle text image SF-354 Single density disk-drive /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_sf354-diskdrive_1.jpg title subtitle text image SF-314 Disk-drive /media/museum/hardware/atari_st-disk-drive_sf314.jpg title subtitle text image CUMANA DRIVE /media/museum/hardware/atari_520_cumanadrive_1.jpg title subtitle text image SUPRADRIVE 20 Mb hard-disk /media/museum/hardware/atari_supradrive_20mb.jpg title subtitle text image 170MB QUANTUM HARD-DRIVE This unit has an ICD Host Adapter. /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_quamtum_hd170.jpg title subtitle text image ATARI MEGAFILE 30 This hard-drive has a 30Mb capacity. /media/museum/hardware/atari_st_megafile30_1.jpg title subtitle text image INSIDE THE MEGAFILE 30 **(1)** Seagate MFM 30 MB hard-disk Type ST-238\ **(2)** Power supply\ **(3)** Logical board\ **(4)** Power and disk access LED's /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_insidemegafile_1.jpg title subtitle text image ATARI UNIVERSAL MODEM 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. /media/museum/hardware/atari_520_modemsx212_1.jpg title subtitle text image SML-804 Laser printer 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. /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_slm804printer_s1.jpg title subtitle text image SMLC-804 Laser printer interface This interface allowed the SML-804 printer to be connected to any Atari ST holding at least 1 MB RAM. /media/museum/hardware/atari_megast_slmcinterface_s1.jpg title url platform text Pacifist ! http://www.pacifist.fatal-design.com/ MS DOS Pretty good emulator title url platform text Gemulator http://www.emulators.com/gemul8r.htm Windows title url platform text MagiCPC http://www.application-systems.de/magicpc/index.html Windows title url platform text SainT http://saint.atari.org Windows The best Atari ST Emulator ! title url platform text Steem http://steem.atari.st/ Windows Excellent emulator for 1040/520 STE ! title url platform text Tos2Win http://www.aixit.com/tos2win/ Windows A good Atari GEM Emulator ! title url platform text MagiCMac http://www.application-systems.de/magicmac/index.html Apple title url platform text NoSTalgia & PowerST http://users.skynet.be/sky39147/ Apple title url platform text STonX Homepage http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stonx.html Unix / Linux title url platform text Atari ST Emulator http://www.atari-st.lovely.net/ Other platform Written in Java ! title url platform text ARAnyM HTTP://ARANYM.ATARI.ORG Multiplatform Multiplatform project title url platform text Hatari http://hatari.sourceforge.net/ Multiplatform 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. title url text Atari & Commodore Home Computer Museum http://www.best.com/~hmk/ title url text Atari Music Network http://www.atarimusic.net/ Atari Music Network welcomes and celebrates all vintage digital musicians no matter what their computer title url text Atari ST Demo History http://wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~brandtf/ataridemos.html title url text Atari ST Download Area http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/PDA/atari.shtml Atari 400/800/XL/XE & ST/TT/Falcon Software download page title url text ATARI.ORG http://www.atari.org/ Looking for something on any Atari machine ? Follow the links ! title url text Dead Hackers Society http://www.dhs.nu/ Atari demo scene title url text Little Green Desktop http://www.atari.st/ Largest Atari ST ressource! title url text Medusa computer http://www.kingx.com/kingx/medusa/thes.html You can still buy an Atari ST family clone computer title url text MiNTOS Distribution http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/mintos.html title url text Musique.Atari.Org HTTP://MUSIQUE.ATARI.ORG Web site dedicated to the ATARI and the Music... title url text PLOPBOX - Atari music archive and jukebox http://www.plopbox.net/ listen to atari tunes directly from your browser title url text Polish Atari Wikipedia http://atariki.krap.pl A lot of info about Atari (in polish) title url text ST Anwender Bern http://my.blackpoint.ch/stab/ Atari ST Usergroup Bern (Swiss) title url text The Atari Historical Society http://www.atarimuseum.com/ The complete history of Atari Arcade and Home games and computers. Complete site with pictures, commercials (streaming), and full text articles. Amazing site ! title url text The Atari ST Quick FAQ http://www.megacom.net/~q-funk/ST/ title url text The Atari WebRing Homepage http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=atari Useful ! title url text The Ultimate ATARI Resource http://www.atari.org title url text What is TOS http://www.vanc.igs.net/~roughley/tos_main.htm title url text Index of -~archive-atari- http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/ title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com French forum title url cover text ATARI 520 ST OWNER'S MANUAL http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/atarist/index.htm /media/museum/docs/couvs/atari_520st_user_doc.jpg [**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 :** author date text herve warin (France) Monday 5th December 2011 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 date text Andrew (USA) Friday 10th September 2010 Link: That dark strip down the left side of the screen did absolutely nothing. author date text Julio cao (Asturias gijon spaña) Wednesday 7th July 2010 Me interesa todo lo que sea en relacion con ATARI gracias y ATARFOREVER author date text Malcolm Ramage (Huddersfield, UK) Thursday 15th April 2010 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 date text Matt (USA) Saturday 16th December 2006 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 date text Link (Hyrule) Friday 8th April 2005 What did that dark strip down the left side of the screen do? Anything? author date text Amir Isa (Malaysia) Wednesday 6th April 2005 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 date text Andy Ball (Illinois, USA) Thursday 30th September 2004 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 date text Andy Ball (Illinois, USA) Thursday 30th September 2004 What are the ST-Book's dimensions?\ How much does it weigh?\ How long is its battery life? /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-030 283 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230609190833/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=283 2023-06-09

After the success of the 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!