Engineering:ST BOOK

ST BOOK

Developer	Tracey Hall (Designer)
Manufacturer	Atari Corporation
Release date	1991 (1991)
Discontinued	1993 (1993)
Units shipped	1000-1200
Operating system	Atari TOS 2.06 (modified)
CPU	Motorola 68HC000 @ 8 MHz
Memory	RAM: 1 MiB on board, can be expanded to 4 MiB ROM: 512 KiB
Storage	Hard disk: 40/80/120 MB 2.5" IDE Floppy disk: optional external drive
Display	10.4" passive matrix LCD (EPSON)
Graphics	640×400 1-bit mono
Power	7 AA batteries Optional extra: Rechargeable NiCad battery pack (up to 10 hours power) AC Adapter (110/220 V switchable)
Dimensions	8.5 in × 11.4 in × 1.4 in (216 mm × 290 mm × 36 mm)
Mass	4.2 pounds (1.9 kg)
Predecessor	STacy

The ST BOOK is a subnotebook released in 1991 by Atari Corporation. It is 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 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

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

External links

• The Atari STBook Laptop
• Atari ST BOOK, OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
• Atari ST Book Practical Performance, 1993