>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...
Weren't internal options, such as hard disks, made for the
the Mega by 3rd party developers or was that only for the MegaSTE?
I've always wanted to expand my Mega above the standard SH204 hard
disk and SM124 monitor but never got around to buying anything other
than TOS 1.04 from Toad before they exited the Atari market. If
nothing else, one of the ICD interfaces might be cool.
Jeff
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Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 11:16:12 BST