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Atari TT 030	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1990	Motorola MC 68030	name company company_name specs tabs adverts hardware emulators links docs comments related oc_id source TT 030 /companies/atari Atari label value NAME TT 030 label value MANUFACTURER Atari label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1990 label value CPU Motorola MC 68030 label value SPEED 32 MHz label value CO-PROCESSOR 68882 (numeric processor) label value RAM 2 MB (up to 26 MB) label value ROM 512 KB label value TEXT MODES 40 x 24 / 80 x 24 / 80 x 30 / 160 x 60 (bitmapped graphics) label value GRAPHIC MODES 320 x 200 (16 col) / 320 x 480 (256 col) / 640 x 200 (2 col) / 640 x 400 (2 col) / 640 x 480 (16 col) / 1280 x 960 (mono). label value COLORS 16 among 4096 (512 with a special CPU consuming 'Spectrum' mode) label value SOUND 3 channels, 8 octaves FM + two voices 8 bit PCM. label value I/O PORTS 4 serial ports, Centronics, Floppy disk, RGB, VGA, SCSI, Stereo, Joystick (2), Midi In/Out, Cardridge, LocalTalk, ASCI, VME label value BUILT IN MEDIA One 3.5'' FDD (originally 720k and later updated to 1.44MB) label value OS TOS + GEM label value POWER SUPPLY PSU built-in label value PRICE $2995 (2MB RAM, 50MB hard-drive) adverts hardware emulators links docs title subtitle text image GERMAN BROCHURE #1 Thanks to **Volken** null title subtitle text image GERMAN BROCHURE #2 Thanks to **Volken** null title subtitle text image GERMAN BROCHURE #3 Thanks to **Volken** 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 Great page about the Atari TT030 http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv5n6/tterrific.html 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 TT in wooden case ! http://ping4.ping.be/~pin10575/HARSOF-E.HTM 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 Jana Saturday 30th June 2018 Actually there never was a 16Mhz version. They considered using the 68020 at 16Mhz but late in development the switched over to the 68030 running at 32Mhz. They kept tha bus at 16Mhz for technical reasons and for compatibility with ST apps though. author date text Pieter van der Meer (Nederland) Sunday 22nd April 2012 The Atari TT was a success in some circles. Certainly it wasn''t a flop. But it wasn''t the big success that the Atari ST was. It was simply too pricey. Even if "Power without the price" was still true for this machine, it was more capable than the PCs or Amiga''s of its time. The latter all had bigger price tags. The reason why it wasn''t the success the ST was, was because the thing was aimed solely at business, while Atari had a loyal home computing following.\ Anyway, it was a splendid machine. Every bit as reliable as the ST, but super fast and with even greater connectivity. author date text Krys Thursday 29th December 2011 A few bits of information:\ The TT/X with UNIX featured the standard TT hardware, the only difference that I am aware of was having the UNIX system pre-installed. It appears to have been very rare, even by TT standards, though it was not vaporware, and a few have turned up. The Appletalk LAN port never had any software released to support it, though TOS 3.x (TT TOS) does "see" it. Appletalk LAN was also provided on the Falcon, so Atari seemed pretty confident that they would do something with it eventually. Apparently the 256 colour TT-Low resolution (an odd addition to a system aimed mainly at high-res DTP and CAD/CAM applications) was apparently a hang over from the STe. The STe was originally intended to have this resolution but it was $ped from that design for some reason, but picked up again in the TT. Also, the "Spectrum" mode is not an "official" mode, but can be done using programming "tricks", and can actually use the full 4096 colours of the palette. The same tricks can be done on the STe and stock STs (with 512 instead of 4096 cols, due to their smaller palette). The name comes from the Spectrum 512 image editor, which famously used this trick in a very elegant way. Finally, just to correct the RAM specification. The system can support up to 256mb TT-RAM (on a dedicated RAM card). ST-RAM was less, though I''m not sure of the upper limit. author date text Melchior-Christoph v. d. Brincken (Germany / Berlin / wannaberupublic of Kreuzberg) Wednesday 18th August 2004 The Atari TT was a success. It completed the ST Line with an "professionel" machine. This encouraged the software developers. Especialy grafic apps got a boost. Calamus S and later SL (DTP), Retouche Pro (kind of Photoshop), Didiot Professional (DTP), Avantvektor Pro (kind of Illustrator) and Turbo CAD ST/TT version were published. The TT was a huge success. author date text Karol (Poland) Wednesday 30th October 2002 I search atari tt I'm from poland /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-st-book /museum/atari-stacy /museum/atari-stylus-st-pad 245 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230410070535/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=245 2023-04-10

The Atari TT was a kind of a super Atari STe. As the other Atari computers, it was very long awaited. It was presented as a competitor of the Macintosh and was one of the first to offer a huge graphic resolution (1280 x 960).

The first TTs had a 16Mhz CPU. A small daugther card was supplied later to use a 32 MHz CPU, then all the TTs were shipped with a 32 MHz CPU.

It had a lot of extension connectors (like VME, VGA or SCSI) to allow it to be connected to a lot of standard peripherals.

It had also several features of the Atari STe, like the sound system, but contrary to this one, it didn't have its enhanced video features (fine scrolling) and its Blitter (custom chip designed to move bitmap blocks).

It had, like the Amiga computers, a special memory organisation : 4 MB, expandable to 12 MB (called ST RAM) was used for coprocessors (video, sound, ASCI) and the rest (called TT RAM which can be located on the motherboard or on a VME card) was used only for 68030 processor and wasn't slowed by peripherals accesses. Both SCSI and serial could do DMA transfers directly to TT-RAM.

A special version of the TT was designed to be a UNIX station, called TT/X it was supplied with UNIX System V R4 and WISH (an extension of OSF Motif).

However the TT and the TT/X had no success and there was no (or so few) software especially designed for this computer. Notice that a Macintosh emulator (called Spectre GCR - done by Dave Small-) turned the Atari TT into a very fast Macintosh clone : Macintosh software could be used on the TT, and often they ran faster than on the original Mac!)