25 Dec
2012
25 Dec
'12
7:54 p.m.
I am looking at buying an Atari ST, witch model should I look into buying?
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25 Dec
25 Dec
8:33 p.m.
At 7:54 PM -0800 12/25/12, Tom Sparks wrote:
I am looking at buying an Atari ST, witch model should
I look into buying?
The TT030 is nice very nice and takes a VGA monitor, but I rather
wish I'd gone for a Falcon. Of course I got my TT030 nearly 15 years
ago, it was hard to get then, I hate to think how hard it might be to
get any Atari ST now, or what any Atari computer might cost.
Zane
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26 Dec
26 Dec
1:13 a.m.
On 26/12/2012 04:33, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 7:54 PM -0800 12/25/12, Tom Sparks wrote:
The "bog standard" STs, STFMs and STEs go for reasonable amounts in the
UK. Until recently they were not even selling at all but the market
seems to have picked up. They seem more expensive in the US. There is a
TT-030 on ebay at present with a "buy-it-now" of $400 which seems
slightly expensive to me as its standard.
http://r.ebay.com/pJz2eC
Sadly my MEGA died a while ago but I think my STE (4Megs RAM, interal
laptop IDE hard drive) and TT-030 (with "hi-res graphics card) both work
fine.
I am looking at buying an Atari ST, witch model
should I look into
buying?
The TT030 is nice very nice and takes a VGA monitor, but I rather wish
I'd gone for a Falcon. Of course I got my TT030 nearly 15 years ago,
it was hard to get then, I hate to think how hard it might be to get
any Atari ST now, or what any Atari computer might cost.
Zane
Dave G4UGM
7:23 a.m.
At 9:13 AM +0000 12/26/12, Dave wrote:
The "bog standard" STs, STFMs and STEs go for
reasonable amounts in the UK.
I think the Atari's might have been more accessible in the UK and
Europe. Even 15 years ago they were virtually impossible to get, at
least where I live. I tried for several years to find an 8-bit Atari
computer, and eventually ceased to look.
Until recently they were not even selling at all but
the market
seems to have picked up. They seem more expensive in the US. There
is a TT-030 on ebay at present with a "buy-it-now" of $400 which
seems slightly expensive to me as its standard.
http://r.ebay.com/pJz2eC
Actually that's on the low-end of what I feared.
Sadly my MEGA died a while ago but I think my STE
(4Megs RAM,
interal laptop IDE hard drive) and TT-030 (with "hi-res graphics
card) both work fine.
I've been meaning to check on my TT-030 for quite some time. It's
the only Atari I've ever managed to get my hands on.
At one point I ran into someone selling several ST's and MEGA's at a
swap meet, but he wanted far more than I (or anyone else) was willing
to pay.
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Photographer |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| My flickr Photostream |
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7:56 a.m.
On 26/12/2012 15:23, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 9:13 AM +0000 12/26/12, Dave wrote:
It wasn't Ben was it?
http://www.aracnet.com/~atari/st_hard.htm
The "bog standard" STs, STFMs and STEs
go for reasonable amounts in
the UK.
I think the Atari's might have been more accessible in the UK and
Europe. Even 15 years ago they were virtually impossible to get, at
least where I live. I tried for several years to find an 8-bit Atari
computer, and eventually ceased to look.
Until recently they were not even selling at all
but the market seems
to have picked up. They seem more expensive in the US. There is a
TT-030 on ebay at present with a "buy-it-now" of $400 which seems
slightly expensive to me as its standard.
http://r.ebay.com/pJz2eC
Actually that's on the low-end of what I feared.
Sadly my MEGA died a while ago but I think my STE
(4Megs RAM, interal
laptop IDE hard drive) and TT-030 (with "hi-res graphics card) both
work fine.
I've been meaning to check on my TT-030 for quite some time. It's the
only Atari I've ever managed to get my hands on.
At one point I ran into someone selling several ST's and MEGA's at a
swap meet, but he wanted far more than I (or anyone else) was willing
to pay.
Zane
1:02 a.m.
On 26/12/2012 03:54, Tom Sparks wrote:
I am looking at buying an Atari ST, witch model should
I look into buying?
If you are talking "real" STs and you want to play games then stick with
the older ranges that have the best games compatability. So a pre STE
console models, say ST-F or FM or a Mega. I think almost all games will
work in 512 Megs of RAM. Look for a 720k diskeette as many machines have
only a 360k single sided drive which makes moving files to a PC
interesting.
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