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 260ST, 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.
The Atari ST is part of the 16/32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU, typically with 512 KB of RAM or more, a graphical user interface, and 3½” microfloppy disks as storage. It was similar to the Apple Macintosh, and its simple design allowed the ST to precede the Commodore Amiga’s commercial release by almost two months. The ST was primarily a competitor to the Macintosh, Amiga, and in certain markets the Acorn Archimedes. Where the Amiga has a graphics accelerator and sample-based synthesis based sound, the ST has a simple frame buffer and a 3 voice synthesizer chip, but with a slightly faster CPU and a high-resolution monochrome display mode ideal for business and CAD. In some markets, particularly Germany, the machine gained a strong foothold as a small business machine for CAD and Desktop publishing work.
Thanks to its built-in MIDI, the ST enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among both amateurs and well-known musicians. The ST was later superseded by the Atari STE, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE and Falcon computers.
This is the collection of original hardware. None of this collection is for sale. If you have an item which is not on the list, please contact me and maybe we can trade. Donations are welcome too 🙂
Item | Manufacturer | boxed/loose |
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1040STE PAL | Atari | loose |
1040STF PAL | Atari | boxed |
1040STFM PAL | Atari | loose |
260ST PAL | Atari | loose |
3.5 Disk-drive | Atin | loose |
3.5 Disk-drive | Cumana | loose |
3.5 Disk-drive | Unknown | loose |
5.25 Disk-drive | Unknown | loose |
5.25 Disk-drive | Cumana | loose |
520ST PAL | Atari | loose |
520ST+ PAL | Atari | loose |
AHW-44 Wechselplatte (Syquest) | FSE Computer | loose |
Arcade Joystick 1 firebutton | STC | loose |
Arcade Joystick 2 firebuttons | STC | loose |
Atari ‘Low-Cost’ Key Demo Package | Introcom | boxed |
Atari Realtime Clock (Robtek version) | Robtek | boxed |
Atari Realtime Clock (Shanner version) | Robtek | boxed |
Atari ST Professional Video Digitizer Pro-87 | Print Technik | boxed |
Atari ST Professional Video Digitizer Pro-8805 | Print Technik | boxed |
Audio Recording Module for Notator Logic | Emagic | boxed |
Beetle Mouse | New Idea | boxed |
Composite Video Interface | Brunelco | loose |
External SCSI Harddisk | Phertron | loose |
External SCSI Harddisk | Unknown | loose |
External SCSI Harddisk | Unknown | loose |
Notator Logic | Emagic | boxed |
Mega 1 PAL | Atari | loose |
Mega ST2 PAL | Atari | loose |
Mega/STE PAL | Atari | loose |
Megafile 30 | Atari | loose |
Megafile 60 | Atari | loose |
MO4 (4 Midi Outputs) | Soundpool | loose |
Monitor Master | Practical S. | loose |
Monitor Switchbox ST+ | Unknown | loose |
Multiface ST | Rom. Robot | loose |
PC Speed v1.5 (incl. manual & software) | Compo | loose |
PC Speed v2.0 (incl. manual & software) | Sack | loose |
Replay 4 | Microdeal | boxed |
SC1224 Monitor | Atari | loose |
SF354 Disk-drive | Atari | loose |
SH204 Harddisk | Atari | loose |
Simulation Pack (Flightstick + 3 games) | Atari | boxed |
SLMC804 Interface | Atari | boxed |
SLMC804 Laser Printer | Atari | loose |
SM124 Monitor | Atari | boxed |
SM124 Monitor different logo | Atari | loose |
SM125 Monitor | Atari | loose |
SM144 Monitor | Atari | loose |
Soundtrack | ACN | loose |
STM1 Mouse | Atari | loose |
SX212 Modem | Atari | boxed |
The Link | ICD | loose |
Triple Mouse | Genius | boxed |
Videomaster | Microdeal | loose |
Vidi ST | Rombo | loose |