The Atari 1040STf Computer

Atari 1040ST
 

The Atari 1040STf Had a whole Megabyte of RAM. This was something very crazy in 1986. There was more RAM in the stock 1040STf than there was in the IBM PC or the Apple Macintosh, not only that, but for a price that was thousands or hundreds of dollars cheaper! A Spector GCR Cartridge Attachment would allow the ST to emulate a Apple Macintosh for a way cheaper price, and with some programs, faster too! This computer was a marvel and was very popular with world class musicians and with energy conserns! Atari was at the top of the computer world with this, with the Commordore Amiga right on its back. The ACD owns one of these and we use it all the time. (if only we could find a cheap hard drive...)


Atari 520ST Specs
First Year 1986
Last year of production 1988??
Processor CPU Motorola MC68000 (no more 6502!)
Processor Speed 8mhz (faster than most computers!)
Co-Processor 1 none that we know of!
RAM 1024kb (upgradable to 4mb!)
ROM 192kb  (The OS fit on this!)
Colours 320x200 16 colours
640x200 512 TOS/ 4(!) GEM
640x400 Monochrome (special monitor)
Sound 8  Octaves and 3 Voices
OS TOS + GEM on ROM (yay!)
I/O ports RGB video output
Cartridge Slot (barely ever used)
MIDI in/out (a big thing with ATARI)
RS232c
2 joystick sockets 1 as mouse and joy
Centronics (email me with info about this)
Floppy Disk port, Modem port, HD port.
NOTE: Came with diskdrive builtin STf ,<-floppy