The ST BOOK is a portable computer

Portable computer

A portable computer is a computer that is designed to be moved from one place to another and includes a display and keyboard. Portable computers, by their nature, are generally microcomputers. Portable computers, because of their size, are also commonly known as 'Lunchbox' or 'Luggable' computers...

 released in 1991 by Atari

Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA . The original Atari, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It was a pioneer in...

. It was 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 is fixed to the 640x400 1-bit mono mode and no external video port was provided. For its limitations, it gained some popularity as being the most utterly portable 'real' computer of the day (slim, light, quiet, reliable, and with a long battery life, even by today's standards for all 5).

In its features it is comparable to the Apple PowerBook 100

PowerBook 100

The PowerBook 100 was a portable subnotebook personal computer manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced on October 21, 1991 at the COMDEX computer expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Priced at US$2,300, the PowerBook 100 was the low-end model of the first three simultaneously-released...

.

Specifications

• Processor: Motorola 68HC000
  Motorola 68000
  The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor...
  
  , running at 8 MHz
• RAM
  Ram
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  : 1 MiB
  MIB
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   onboard, can be expanded to 4 MiB
• ROM
  Read-only memory
  Read-only memory is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be modified, or can be modified only slowly or with difficulty, so it is mainly used to distribute firmware .In its strictest sense, ROM refers only...
  
  : 512 KiB
• Blitter
  Blitter
  In a computer system, a blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, that is dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within that computer's memory...
  
  
• Real-Time Clock
  Real-time clock
  A real-time clock is a computer clock that keeps track of the current time. Although the term often refers to the devices in personal computers, servers and embedded systems, RTCs are present in almost any electronic device which needs to keep accurate time.-Terminology:The term is used to avoid...
  
   Lithium Battery
• Hard disk
  Hard disk
  A hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the...
  
  : IDE 20-40 MB
• Floppy disk
  Floppy disk
  A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles...
  
  : optional external drive
• Systems supported: TOS
  Atari TOS
  TOS is the operating system of the Atari ST range of computers. This range includes the 520 and 1040ST, their STF/M/FM and STE variants and the Mega ST/STE. Later, 32-bit machines were developed using a new version of TOS, called MultiTOS, which allowed multitasking...
  
   2.06
• 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
• Screen: 10,4" EPSON LCD passive matrix

External links

• The Atari STBook Laptop
• Atari ST BOOK, OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
• THE ATARI ST BOOK!!