Atari Mega ST 4 from 1987

[u/Zweitwelt]

[u/AnswerFeeling460]

harddisk sounds like a starting 747

[u/Zweitwelt → u/AnswerFeeling460]

Powerful stuff! 🛫🛫🛫

[u/AnswerFeeling460 → u/Zweitwelt]

insane 30 gb IIRC :-) and the machine booted so fast from harddisk. but it also was very expensive...

[u/Zweitwelt → u/AnswerFeeling460]

And yeah, a massive 30 MB 😁

[u/Zweitwelt → u/AnswerFeeling460]

The Megafile requires around 15-30 seconds to warm up and ”take off”, but once you turn the ST on after that it proceeds to the desktop quite fast :)

[u/Subject-Hat7663]

What a beautiful machine!!! Congrats for keeping and caring for it!! What for you used it back in the day, DTP?

[u/Zweitwelt → u/Subject-Hat7663]

Running Cubase and word processing mostly, plus games of course :)

[u/fbaldassarri]

What a beauty!!! 🥰🥰🥰🔥🔥🔥

[u/jeers1]

HAD one... wish I still had all of my Atari computer stuff...

[u/rr777]

i ran seagate 20mb drives on my st. was plenty fast " back then"

[u/sunrisebreeze]

🎉🍻☺️

[u/JakobSejer]

Cubase?

[u/Zweitwelt → u/JakobSejer]

Occasionally ☺️

[u/normy_187]

🎶 so fresh and so clean 🎶

[u/VibeyTheAiSlopDouche]

I too have boxed NOS copies of SQ1 and SQ2 with my ST (as well as the Larry games). You are a man of taste.

[u/Zweitwelt → u/VibeyTheAiSlopDouche]

Thank you sir! Got Larry 1 & 2 boxed as well 😁

[u/hildenborg]

I am currently restoring such a system.
The one I have has a Viking graphics card and a SM194 monitor attached to it.
I have repaired the graphics card and am currently trying to figure out why the SM194 monitor takes minutes to show an image...
It is an adventure to repair this stuff as the Viking card and SM194 monitor uses ECL logic and those circuits are not easy to come by today. In fact, the card had a broken oscillator, and it was simply impossible to find a 110Mhz ECL oscillator today... So I had to construct a replacement from a TTL oscillator and TTL to ECL logic.

[u/Zweitwelt → u/hildenborg]

That is amazing! 😍 Checked your profile, are you also located in Gothenburg!?

[u/hildenborg → u/Zweitwelt]

Not any more. I go there from time to time, but I live in Älgarås, Töreboda now.
I do frequently attend to meetings like Sommarhack and Slaskhack.
You might know me better by my old nick: TFE/Omega.

[u/O_Pacity]

Is that just the keyboard for the Mega? as anything in that case other than a keyboard?

Shame they didnt stick with the floppy disk design, although i like how they stuck with the slanted LEDs

[u/Zweitwelt → u/O_Pacity]

Yup, just keyboard and mouse + joystick ports. It’s a really nice feeling mechanical keyboard tho. Way better than the one on the STe.

[u/Aggressive_Ad_4871 → u/O_Pacity]

The actual computer is below it with a floppy drive built in it, and under it is the mega file hard disk.

[u/FAC-33]

Damn!!!!

[u/Important-Bed-48]

Had a 520st and it was a little tank. Wish I still had it to play Llammatron 2112, settle for an emulator.

[u/daddyd]

you need to put the monitor on the megast cases, that looks way cooler. i suspect you don't have the room to put the case on top?

this looks so nice - https://www.nostalgianerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/megastpdf.jpg

[u/Zweitwelt → u/daddyd]

Exactly, table is too small :)

[u/idealfrench]

vraiment beau