1040ST's were some of the most widely built version of the ST's, they appear
most often in swap meets and on Ebay and usually you can get a nice setup
with monitor for anywhere from $20-$30 on Ebay. The 1040ST's also have a
deeper case design and lots of room for the many expansions both commercial
and homebrew that are available, several include the 1.44mb floppy upgrade,
IDE hd, cpu upgrade and memory upgrade. There are also a few new homebrew
upgrades like the ASCI to ISA bus that allows you to use standard NE2000
network cards and hook your ST up to the Internet, CAB 2.7 and another newer
browsers are available and there are multiple email, realplayer compatible,
PDF reader compatible, newsgroup utils available to totally equip your ST
for Internet use. I would highly Papyrus word processor, it is excellent.
Also look into using MiNT and the replacement desktops.... especially Jinnee
which has a cross Mac/Win9x look and feel...
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: VERY good weekend
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Alexander Bochmann wrote:
>
> > ...on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:48:07PM -0500, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
> >
> > > > An Atari 1040ST with SC1224 display and mouse - works great, no
> > > > burn-in, floppy reads & formats perfectly. $5.98
> > > I remember that one, an Amiga wannabe. Talk about a rare duck there
. .
> >
> > *ouch*
> >
> > Well, the Atari ST was a major success in Europe,
> > so 1040STs are not exactly rare... It's a problem
> > to find one at that price, though...
>
> The Atari 1040ST is not rare here either by any means. Like everything,
> they don't come up as often as they used to a few years ago, but they do
> turn up, sometimes in droves.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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