14 Jun
2002
14 Jun
'02
11:16 a.m.
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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