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Atari MEGA ST Series
 Photo courtesy of Hans-Martin Krober of The Atari Exhibition |
"The ST is noticeably faster than the Macintosh, not only because of the faster clock rate, but because it has a faster disk drive." -Personal Computing, 1985 
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| Model | Atari MEGA ST Series | |
| Processor | Motorola MC68000 16/32 Bit | 8MHz |
| Memory | 1,2 or 4MB RAM | Expandable to 4MB |
| Operating System (U.S. Versions) |
TOS 1.00/1.2 (Plug in Upgradeable to TOS 1.4) |
In ROM (2 or 6 chip set) |
| GUI | GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) | by Digital Research Inc. |
| Disk Drives | 720KB 3.5" | Internal |
| Various Hard Drives | External | |
| Interfaces | Cartridge port | 40-pin |
| Joystick port | 9-pin D-Type | |
| Mouse/Secondary Joystick port | 9-pin D-Type | |
| RS232C Serial port | 25-pin, 19.2 kbps | |
| Parallel port | 25-pin | |
| MIDI in, MIDI out/thru | ||
| External floppy port | ||
| DMA/ACSI port | 19-pin | |
| Monitor port | ST mono, ST color | |
| MegaBus slot (internal) | Processor direct DMA | |
| Peripheral co-processor slot (internal) | for MC68881 math co-processor, etc. | |
| Sound | Yamaha 3-voice FM | 8-bit mono |
| Graphics | 512 color pallette BLiTTER chip for faster graphics |
Up to 16 simultaneous colors (all 512 with 3rd party software) |
| Keyboard | 94 keys | (84 + 10 function keys) |
| Function Keys | F1 - F10 | |
| Case style | Two-piece with internal FDD, separate keyboard | |
| Announced | 1986 | |
| Released | 1987 | |
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