After the success of the Stacy, Atari presented a new portable computer: the ST Book.
It was a rather nice toy: very light, impressive battery life, MIDI ports, battery-saved RAM, etc.
The Hard Disk contains a small Null-Modem program to transfer files (very handy!). It has no internal floppy drive, the external floppy was a weird (and expensive!) unit that used the same interface as Atari's hard disks (ACSI).
Despite its interesting characteristics, and because of the deplorable commercial policy of Atari (I KNOW NUTTZING!), it had no success and only about one thousand units were sold in Europe.
A word of warning: The cases & screen on this computer are VERY FRAGILE! Whatever you do, do not drop this computer, as it probably will shatter!
No, it's definately ACSI - it was a butchered-up varient of SCSI. If you wanted to use a SCSI harddrive with an atari, you had to buy a third-party circuitboard to do translation.
Saturday 16th December 2006
Matt (USA)
NAME
ST BOOK
MANUFACTURER
Atari
TYPE
Portable
ORIGIN
U.S.A.
YEAR
1990
KEYBOARD
full stroke keyboard
CPU
Motorola MC 68000
SPEED
8 MHz
RAM
1 or 4 MB (no extension)
ROM
256 KB
TEXT MODES
40 x 25 / 80 x 25
GRAPHIC MODES
640 x 400
COLORS
monochrome LCD display
SOUND
three channels, 8 octaves
I/O PORTS
Centronics, RS232c, Floppy Disk, internal IDE Hard disk, Midi In/Out, Dock Station connector
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