maxlords Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I was at Value Village today, and ended up finding an Atari 520 ST system. Not only was there a keyboard system, but also a BOXED SM 124 monitor and a BOXED SF 354 Disk Drive, as well as a spare SM 354 drive (with a different front configuration) and all the hookups. No mouse, no software. I paid $45 Cdn (about $30 US) for it. Did I get screwed? What is this stuff worth really? The boxes are in nice shape (though the monitor one has some writing on it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Just as long as all of those items are working, it sounds like a pretty good deal! The only thing that sucks is that it didn't come with a mouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxlords Posted July 22, 2003 Author Share Posted July 22, 2003 I haven't tested em yet, but I will in the next couple of days Just good to hear. It's not something i plan to keep...figure I'll trade it off to someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazah Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 If you need a mouse I have several for sale! I have a 520ST sys as well as a 1040 and 4160STe. Good find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retire Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Hi tjlazah, About your reply to maxloards on you haveing some st equipment way back on july 22. I also got lucky on Aug. 8th. and was at a church rumage sale and bought a somewhat of a whole st system. The monitor, keyboard computer, printer, floppy drive, and mouse. Even the modem. All for 5 bucks. Now the only problem is I need two power plugs. One for the computer which is a 7 pin. Mine is the 520st, and power plug for the floppy. Which is a 5pin. Floppy is the sf354. The printer seems ok except I have no paper for it and the monitor may be ok. Will know when I get plugs. I'm a complete newbe at the atari so I'll be fumbling around on it, so I hope I've explained it all to you correctly. Many thanks and to anyone else, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazah Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 Hi tjlazah, About your reply to maxloards on you haveing some st equipment way back on july 22. I also got lucky on Aug. 8th. and was at a church rumage sale and bought a somewhat of a whole st system. The monitor, keyboard computer, printer, floppy drive, and mouse. Even the modem. All for 5 bucks. Now the only problem is I need two power plugs. One for the computer which is a 7 pin. Mine is the 520st, and power plug for the floppy. Which is a 5pin. Floppy is the sf354. The printer seems ok except I have no paper for it and the monitor may be ok. Will know when I get plugs. I'm a complete newbe at the atari so I'll be fumbling around on it, so I hope I've explained it all to you correctly. Many thanks and to anyone else, Jim Well I also got a 520ST and no P/S recently. Then I found one on ebay for $5! I also got one for my drive. Look on there, people sell them all the time. I now have a working 520ST system! I now have: 2 520ST's, 1 1040STf, 1 4160STe and Falcon030. A 130XE and XF551 also! I always likes the grey Atari XE/ST computers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Just thought I'd tell you, in case some of you don't know, that the SF354 Diskdrive is the single sided model. This will prevent you from running the newer games unless you're lucky enough to find single sided versions of them. I know that, among others, Sierra released single sided versions of some of their games. Cheers! Troop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoriCiani Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Well, our Atari STE was bought 1988 brand new. Would it astound you if I said that it still works? These are tough little machines. It sits in the bedroom of my youngest who plays games on it sometimes even though he has a Playstation. It will always be an "oldie but goodie" to us. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Trooper is right.... if you're going to be using that ST much you should be looking for an SF314 drive as its the double sided one. I believe the majority of commercial software programs came on SS disks and you'll find lots to do with a SS drive. But if you are going to be downloading software and transferring it to ST disks, especially games, I doubt if most (if any) of the programs will fit on SS disks. Does anyone know why Atari numbered the SS drive 354 and the DS drive 314? When you consider that their computers & accessories went UP in number value as they got bigger & better (Atari 400 - 800; Atari 65XE - 130XE, Atari ST 520 - 1040, Atari XM301 - 1200SX) the disk drives went DOWN? Just seems backwards to me and they should have made the SS 314 and the DS 354. Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 These are the Tramiels we are talking about. Did anything that they did ever make any sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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