ST Book

The ST Book (also written as STBook) is a notebook-sized laptop released in October 1991 by Atari Corporation.^[4] It is based on the Atari STE. The ST Book is more portable than the previous Atari portable, the STacy, but it sacrifices several features in order to achieve this: notably the backlight, and internal floppy disc drive.^[5][6]

ST Book

Developer	Tracey Hall (Designer)
Manufacturer	Atari Corporation
Type	Laptop (Notebook)
Release date	October 1991; 33 years ago (1991-10)
Discontinued	1993 (1993)
Units shipped	1000-1200
Operating system	Atari TOS 2.06 (modified)
CPU	Motorola 68HC000 @ 8 MHz[1]
Memory	RAM: 1 MiB on board, can be expanded to 4 MiB ROM: 512 KiB
Storage	Hard disk: 40/80/120 MB 2.5" IDE[2] Floppy disk: optional external drive
Display	10.4" passive matrix LCD (EPSON)
Graphics	640×400 1-bit mono
Power	7 AA batteries Optional extra: Rechargeable NiCad battery pack (up to 10 hours power) AC Adapter (110/220 V switchable)[3]
Dimensions	8.5 in × 11.4 in × 1.4 in (216 mm × 290 mm × 36 mm)
Weight	4.2 pounds (1.9 kg)
Predecessor	STacy

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 [1]

Model number: NST-141

• Blitter
• Character set: Atari ST character set (based on code page 437)
• Real-time clock Lithium Battery
• Parallel: 1 port
• Serial: 1 port
• ACSI/FDD: 1 port
• MIDI: 2 ports
• External keyboard
• Internal Modem: optional (used for this model's expansion port)
• Vector Pad