atari 1040st

[glorfindel]

at goodwill i found an atari 1040st computer. looked in the box and its all there and in amazing condition. there asking $35 for it and im wondering if thats worth it.

[icbrkr]

at goodwill i found an atari 1040st computer. looked in the box and its all there and in amazing condition. there asking $35 for it and im wondering if thats worth it.

If it works, absolutely.

[glorfindel]

bought it today. came with both power cords (moniter/keyboard tower thing), video cable, and atari mouse. it turns on and shows me this green screen with the words disk file view options on the top.

its in great condition with original box, styrofoam. theres small discoloration on the bottom left hand side of the keyboard and the mouse has a small smudge. the guy who brought it into goodwill told me that it has been sitting in his mothers basement for over 15 years unused.

still wondering an approxament value for this.

[glorfindel]

PICTURES!!!

keyboard and tower thing...whatever you call it

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb232/cheesehead69_photo/Picture002-1.jpg

moniter
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb232/cheesehead69_photo/Picture003-1.jpg

mouse!

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb232/cheesehead69_photo/Picture001-1.jpg

[Soviet Conscript]

$85 - $100 maybe?

i don't know. i'm just baseing that on the last one i saw for sale over at the neo-geo forums. i think the guy was selling it for $85...it may have been more though.

yours is more complete so I would assume its worth a bit more.

[glorfindel]

well i noticed that the moniter had its own model number and i googled it. the moniter is for sale on some website for $99 alone and the moniter even has problems. mine doesnt that i know of

[oesiii]

ST prices vary a lot because there's not a lot of demand. Every once in awhile someone needs to have one and it can spike a price. I wouldn't go by a website price because that's not close to what a collector or game player usually will pay.

The color monitor is probably worth $30-40 most days and the computer is also about $30-40. So I say your price was a good deal especially since you didn't have to pay shipping.

[glorfindel]

well im only 16 so these old computers and video games r new to me kinda. i have no clue what im doing!

[oesiii]

Should be fun experience. The Atari ST and it's main rival in the late 80's, the Amiga were very fun gaming home computers. The best forum for the Atari ST is at:
www.atari-forum.com

Lots of good info there and you can see a lot of the cool games at : http://www.atarilegend.com

One of the cool things about the ST is that you can image/burn a floppy disk on your PC that will boot up and play the on the ST. Wikipedia has a cool looking entry on the ST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST

[glorfindel]

well i got a bunch of old windows 95 floppys but those probably wont work

[icbrkr]

No Windows 95 doesn't run on an ST (because an ST .. is well an ST.. it runs ST stuff). Luckily, TOS (what the ST runs on), can read 720K MS DOS formatted disks so you can bring images over to write. If you have a controller that supports it, you can write them on your PC. Seconded, atari-forum.com is a good place to learn all that stuff. Also a little blurb about me getting mine up and going here http://particles.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=292&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0