The ST Book (also written as STBook) is a notebook-sized laptop released in October 1991 by Atari Corporation.[4] It is based on the Atari STE. The ST Book is more portable than the previous Atari portable, the STacy, but it sacrifices several features in order to achieve this: notably the backlight, and internal floppy disc drive.[5][6]
The screen is highly reflective. It supports the 640×400 1-bit mono mode only without an external video port. It gained some popularity as being the most utterly portable full-featured computer of the day (slim, light, quiet, reliable, and with a long battery life, even by modern standards for all 5).
The ST Book is shipped with a modified version of TOS 2.06.
Specifications [1]
Model number: NST-141
- Blitter
- Character set: Atari ST character set (based on code page 437)
- Real-time clock Lithium Battery
- Parallel: 1 port
- Serial: 1 port
- ACSI/FDD: 1 port
- MIDI: 2 ports
- External keyboard
- Internal Modem: optional (used for this model's expansion port)
- Vector Pad
References
- ^ a b "Atari STBook Brochure". Classic Computer Brochures. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ Opening the Atari ST Book, AtariForumWiki
- ^ "Personal Computers :: ST Book". Atari Explorer. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015.
- ^ "Atari shows off STBook". Computergram International. GlobalData. October 29, 1991 – via Gale.
- ^ Beschizza, Rob (2024-10-25). "Atari ST Book laptop among the rarest treasures of the 16-bit era". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
- ^ "AEX - The most comprehensive exploration of Atari online". web.archive.org. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
External links
- The Atari STBook Laptop
- Atari ST Book, OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
- Atari ST Book Practical Performance, 1993
