[net.micro.atari] ST specifics?

stuart@cmu-cs-h.ARPA (Richard Stuart) (04/24/85)

References:

Does anyone know the hardware specifics of the ST?  How many slots, if
any does it have?  What about monitor resolution in black and white, and
color?  What size are the disk drives and are they single or double sided?
How about the size of this machine; is it small enough to be a portable like
a Mac?

                                                    Thanks Much,
                                                        Stuart

mcb8391@acf4.UUCP (mike b) (04/25/85)

Stuart:
	There are lots of specs available on the ST in the last 2 or 3
issues of Antic and Analog magazine as well as most of the major
microcomputer magazines recently.  However, the answers to those things
you wanted to know are:  320 x 200 & 640 x 200 in color.  It is 16 colors
out of a pallette of 512, and I think there are ways of doing more than
16, just like display lists on the 800s & xls.  The hi res monochrome
mode is 640 & 400, and requires a special monitor because of the vertical
resolution.  It is very, very small and light, much more so than it looks
in the pictures.  Therre arre no slots, but there is an expansion port
on the back.
		Mike Bassman

vr0z05@unido.UUCP (04/28/85)

Processor: 68000 at 8 MHz

ROM: 192 kByte (GEM and BASIC or LOGO)

RAM: 512 kByte

Slots: None!! But what do you need more. Interfaces included:

	- RS232
	- Centronics
	- Floppy-IF
	- Harddisk-IF (1.3 mBit/s)
	- MIDI-IF
	- 3 sound-generators
	- Mouse-IF
	- Joystick-IF
	- Cartridge Slot

I think that is much more than you can add in an Apple II with its 8 slots.
Also you have more interfaces than on the Mac.

Resolution:
	 
	- 640 x 400 in monochrome
	- 640 x 200 in 4 colors
	- 320 x 200 in 16 colors (out of 512)

Floppies:

	- SF314    1 mByte on 3.5" Disks (I think it must be DS/DD)
	- SF354  0.5 mByte on 3.5" Disks.

Size: Very small. I think it's much more portable than the Mac. The 
whole hardware is locatet in the keyboard console, all connectors
are on the back (RS232, Centronics, Floppy-IF, Harddisk-IF, etc.), on
the left side (cartridge slot), or on the right side (Mouse, Game-
Controllers).

Keyboard: Pretty Good. Typewriter-stile keyboard + cursor-block +
numerical block + 10 function keys.

In Germany ATARI has the first ad in a computer magazine (Data Becker News).
The 520 ST ist priced with 512kByte, Basic or Logo in ROM, one SF354
Floppy and GEM at DM 2795.-- (that are about $700 - $800 US$).

Availibility: ???

				   Uwe Hoch