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In <1992Dec14.175930.18053@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
>The 520ST+ was not an offical machine - A few companies sold them in 1987 when

Uh, back in '86, when I bought my ST there was no such thing as a 1040.
You could get a 520ST+ or a 260ST. Both were the types with external
power supply and external disk drive. Originally there had been 520STs
with 500 K of memory, but since these machines didn't have TOS in ROM,
that was hardly enough. So Atari (at least Atari Germany) soldered
another 500K on top of the existing ram chips and called it 520ST+.

Then, for some reason they decided to actually sell a machine with
500K so that was called 260ST. The vendor I bought my machine from
did the upgrade to 1Meg himself but wasn't allowed to call it a
260ST+ (thus the tape on the upper right side of the 260 on the
box I still have). 

I had to shell out 2000 DM ($1250) for the ST and a homemade 3 1/2 
and 5 1/4 inc disk drive (those were EXPENSIVE to buy from Atari). 
Remember the time when you couldn't buy the floppy plugs and had 
to rig them yourself? But because of this I still can switch drive 
A between the 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 inc drives and read and write 360k 
IBM disks. 

.NOSTALGIA OFF

> 520ST - first machine (no internal disk drive or modulator - I can't remember
>whether the power supply was internal.).  TOS was booted from disk.
			      ^^^^^^^^
external.

Michael
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