eBay Episode 7 – Atari ST
History of Personal Computing - A podcast by The History of Personal Computing
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Atari ST brochure
On today’s show, we’re covering the Atari ST, a “GEM” of a computer that helped spark an interest in music and MIDI.
From Wikipedia: “The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family. The first ST model, the 520ST, was released in June 1985. “ST” officially stands for “Sixteen/Thirty-two”, which referred to the Motorola 68000’s 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals. The Atari ST is the first personal computer to come with a bit-mapped color GUI, using a version of Digital Research’s GEM released in February 1985. The 1040ST, released in 1986, is the first personal computer to ship with a megabyte of RAM in the base configuration and also the first with a cost-per-kilobyte of less than USD$1.”
Jeff & David, along with our guest co-host Chuck Hunnefield, a former user and salesperson of the Atari ST line of computers, discuss the system, along with personally selected eBay favorites.
Links mention in this episode:
- MFM hard drive emulation in progress
- Apple Lisa “clone” – PiXL
- Atari: Game Over documentary about the ET cartridge find
- Star Raiders II (finally) released for Atari 400/800
- Story about Star Raiders II
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