The ST BOOK is a

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released in 1991 by

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. It is based on the Atari STE. The ST BOOK is more portable than the previous Atari portable, the

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, but it sacrifices 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 without an external video port. 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 *

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* Character set: Atari ST character set (based on codepage 437) *

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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

References

External links

The Atari STBook Laptop

Atari ST BOOK
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
Atari ST Book Practical Performance, 1993
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