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ST BOOK

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Developer
  
Tracey Hall (Designer)

Discontinued
  
1993 (1993)

Manufacturer
  
Atari

Units shipped
  
1000-1200

ST BOOK

Release date
  
1991; 26 years ago (1991)

Operating system
  
Atari TOS 2.06 (modified)

The ST BOOK (stylized STBOOK) is a portable computer released in 1991 by Atari. It was based on the Atari STE. The ST BOOK was vastly more portable than the previous Atari portable, the STacy, but it sacrificed several features in order to achieve this: notably the backlight, and internal floppy disc drive.

The screen is highly reflective. It supports the 640×400 1-bit mono mode only and no external video port was provided. For its limitations, it gained some popularity as being the most utterly portable "real" computer of the day (slim, light, quiet, reliable, and with a long battery life, even by today's standards for all 5).

The ST BOOK is shipped a with modified version of TOS 2.06.

Specifications

Model number: NST-141

  • Blitter
  • Character set: Atari ST character set (based on codepage 437)
  • Real-time clock Lithium Battery
  • Parallel: Yes (1 port)
  • Serial: Yes (1 port)
  • ACSI/FDD: Yes (1 port)
  • Midi: Yes (2 ports)
  • External keyboard
  • Internal Modem: optional (used for this model's expansion port)
  • Vector Pad

    • References

    ST BOOK Wikipedia
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