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title: Atari FALCON 030
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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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- '1992'
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cpus:
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- Motorola MC68030
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params:
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name: FALCON 030
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_system_1.jpg
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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: FALCON 030
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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: '1992'
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- label: CPU
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value: Motorola MC68030
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- label: SPEED
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value: 16 MHz (68030) / 32 MHz (56001)
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- label: CO-PROCESSOR
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value: optional FPU (Motorola 68882)
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- label: RAM
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value: 4 MB (up to 14 MB)
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- label: ROM
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value: 512 KB
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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: ST Modes, TT Modes, VGA (640 x 480), True Color.
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- label: COLORS
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value: 'Two modes : 16 / 15 bit with True color mode or 262144 with paletted mode'
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- label: SOUND
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value: 8 channel 16 bit PCM audio system
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: RGB, VGA, PAL, DSP, SCSI, Stereo IN/OUT, Midi (2), LocalTalk, Cardridge, RS232c, Centronics, Analog Joystick (2), Digital Joystick (2), 68030 Bus
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: 3.5'' FDD and 2.5'' IDE hard disk (44, 65 or 80 MB) depending models.
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- label: OS
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value: TOS + GEM
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tabs:
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- photos
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- hardware
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- emulators
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- links
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- docs
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forum_thread: 138
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photos:
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- title: NICE PILLOW !
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subtitle: ''
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text: My cat, Praline, is using my Atari Falcon 030 as a pillow. It seems to be really comfortable !
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image: /media/museum/photos/praline.jpg
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- title: 'CLOSE-UP #1'
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_keyboard_1.jpg
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- title: 'CLOSE-UP #2'
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_keyboard_2.jpg
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- title: CASE SIDES
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Left side
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**(1)** MIDI In\
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**(2)** MIDI Out\
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**(3)** ROM cartridge connector\
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**(4)** 2 x joystick plugs
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Right side
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**(5)** Floppy-disc drive
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_sides_1.jpg
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- title: MOTHERBOARD
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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**(1)** Midi In/Out DIN plugs\
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**(2)** Reset switch\
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**(3)** Lan MiniDIN plug\
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**(4)** Modem/Serial DB9 connector\
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**(5)** Printer/Parallel DB25 connector\
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**(6)** IDE bus connector (hard-disk)\
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**(7)** Video signals generator chip called VIDEL\
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**(8)** RF modulator and TV aerial output chinch plug\
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**(9)** RGB monitor DB 19 connector\
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**(10)** SCSI controller chip\
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**(11)** SCSI connector\
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**(12)** Microphone / Headphone jacks\
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**(13)** DSP connector\
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**(14)** CODEC Chip\
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**(15)** 56K DSP (Digital Signal Processing) chip\
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**(16)** 64 KB DSP SRAM chips\
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**(17)** Direct Memory Access chip\
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**(18)** Floppy disc drive cables (data and power)\
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**(19)** fan\
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**(20)** BIOS and GEM ROM\
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**(21)** Memory expansion connectors\
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**(22)** COMBEL chip (MMU + GLUE + Blitter)\
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**(23)** Motorola 68030 microprocessor\
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**(24)** 'Direct Processor' expansion connector\
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**(25)** Joystick connectors\
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**(26)** Motorola Math coprocessor socket\
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**(27)** Multi-Function Peripheral 68901 chip. Performs a 8-bit parallel port, a built-in serial interface, timers and interrupts.\
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**(28)** ROM cartridges connector
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_motherboard_1.jpg
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- title: INSIDE
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Falcon's internal peripharals:
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**(1)** Switching power supply (+5V - 7A, +12V - 0.5A)\
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**(2)** 60 MB CP-2064 Conner hard-disk\
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**(3)** 3.5" F.D. drive\
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**(4)** 4 MB RAM module
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_inside_1.jpg
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- title: REAR CONNECTORS
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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**(1)** Second pair of joystick connectors housing\
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**(2)** DSP connector\
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**(3)** Headphone jack\
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**(4)** Microphone jack\
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**(5)** SCSI connector\
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**(6)** RGB monitor connector\
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**(7)** TV aerial output plug\
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**(8)** Parallel/Printer connector\
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**(9)** Serial/Modem connector\
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**(10)** Lan Mini-DIN connector\
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**(11)** Mains power plug and switch\
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**(12)** Reset switch
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image: /media/museum/photos/atari_falcon30_back_1.jpg
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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.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: 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: 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: Milan Computer GmbH
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url: http://www.milan-computer.de/
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text: Atari ST - Falcon Clone
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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 Ultimate ATARI Resource
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url: http://www.atari.org
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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: 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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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-520-1040-stf-stfm
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- /museum/atari-520-st-st-stm
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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: 125
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230528022437/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=125
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date: '2023-05-28'
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---
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The Atari Falcon 030 is the successor of the [Atari 520 STe](/museum/atari-520-1040-ste/) and the [Atari TT 30](/museum/atari-tt-030/).
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It keeps some features these machines : The graphic modes (320 x 200 / 16 colors, 640 x 200 / 4 colors, 640 x 400 / 2 colors, 320 x 480 / 256 colors and 640 x 480 / 16 colors) and the sound chips (the old Yamaha PSG and the two 8 bits PCM channels of the STe).
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Two new graphic modes have been added : a "small" 256 colors SVGA (640 x 480) and a true color VGA mode (32768 / 65535 colors in 320 x 480). Also when running on a TV, the resolutions are different: True Color mode is 640x480 in PAL and 640x400 in NTSC. The other TV resolutions also have a difference of vertical resolution between PAL and NTSC: 200 or 400 lines in NTSC, 240 or 480 in PAL.
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New interfaces were added too : an ADC 16bit 50 KHz and a DSP I/O port. The videochip has also genlocking features.
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The Falcon was sold with the single-task TOS operating system in ROM (4.04). It is the old Atari ST TOS with new functions to handle the DSP and the new graphic modes. The GUI was slightly enhanced with colored icons and 3D windows.\
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Hopefully a multi-task TOS - MultiTOS) was also delivered on disks. This multitasking system uses the MiNT kernel and an enhanced GUI. MiNT (which stands for MiNT is NOT TOS) is a multitasking Operating System with lot of Unix features. It was initially done by Eric Smith. It was bought later by Atari and became then "MiNT is NOW TOS). Atari planned first to put it in ROM, but it was not finished and was shipped on disks.
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More information by **Malcolm Ramage**:\
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There are at least 3 types of 'ST' style Falcon, the first version was in an FX-1 type case (Complete with FX-1 keyboard, yellow lettering with red function key numbers), the second was like the machine here (In ST colouring) and the release machine (Lighter case than the FX-1, but still had the dark keys with all lettering in white).
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C-Lab licenced the Falcon and released their own version with a slight modification to the audio hardware. The Mk I was a bare falcon with no hard drive, the Mk II included a 500MB hard drive and the Mk X was in a pizza style box with a Mega STe keyboard, but was nothing more than a Mk II in a fancy box.\
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When C-Lab stopped manufacturing the Falcon in 1995, the machine vanished. No further development was done on the Falcon hardware after 1992.
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