Английская Википедия:Atari STacy
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox information appliance The STacy is a portable computer version of the Atari ST.[1][2][3]
The computer was originally designed to operate on 12 standard C cell flashlight batteries for portability. When Atari realized how quickly the machine would use up a set of batteries (especially when rechargeable batteries of the time supplied insufficient power compared to the intended alkalines), they simply glued the lid of the battery compartment shut.Шаблон:Citation needed
The STacy has features similar to the Macintosh Portable, a version of Apple's Macintosh computer which contained a built in keyboard and monitor.
With built-in MIDI, the STacy enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among both amateurs and well-known musicians.[4][5][6][7]
History
The Stacy was a global project, design work was carried out in the Sunnyvale HQ, Cambridge UK, final PCB layouts were produced by Atari in Japan, which is where the first units were manufactured, with final manufacturing occurring in Taiwan.[8]
The distinctive sculptured charcoal-gray case was designed by Ira Velinsky, Atari's chief Industrial Designer.[9]
Models
There are four STacy models:[10][11][12]
- Stacy Шаблон:0: 1 MB RAM, 1× 3.5" internal floppy (Model code: LST-1141)
- Stacy 2: 2 MB RAM, 1× 3.5" internal floppy, 20 MB HD (Model code: LST-2144)
- Stacy 2: 2 MB RAM, 2× 3.5" internal floppy (Model code: LST-2124)
- Stacy 4: 4 MB RAM, 1× 3.5" internal floppy, 40 MB HD (Model code: LST-4144)
Specifications
- Atari TOS 1.04 (Rainbow TOS)
- Blitter
- Character set: Atari ST character set (based on code page 437)
- Real-time clock lithium battery
- Hard disk: ACSI-SCSI 20-40 MB
- Floppy disk
- ACSI, ACSI internal (same as in Mega STE)
- Trackball
Ports
- Parallel: 1 port
- Serial: 1 port
- FDD: 1 port
- MIDI: 2 ports
Optional
In pop culture
The STacy appears in the 1991 films Nothing but Trouble and Delusion.[13]
Gallery
References
External links
- Atari History Museum
- Atari Stacy computer
- A Stacy user page Overview, screen captures, photos.
- STacy Owners Manual - Addendum(1990)
- Шаблон:Citation
- ↑ ST Gossip from Hollywood: A Date With Stacy, by TG, ST-Log ISSUE 35 / AUGUST 1989 / PAGE 15
- ↑ From Atari's Oval Office:Stacy and the Portfolio, by Mard Naman, START VOL. 4 NO. 2 / SEPTEMBER 1989, START: Are Stacys going to be shipping to developers soon? Tramiel: There are no plans. There's nothing really to develop on it that's any different than the 1040ST, because it is a 1040. So we haven't rushed it from a development point of view.
- ↑ ST/MIDI Connection: Winter NAMM Show Report, BY JIM PIERSON-PERRY, START VOL. 4 NO. 10 / MAY 1990, Stacy is a reality - at least for musicians. While the FCC has yet to approve it for home use, 2MB and 4MB versions with internal hard drives have been approved for sale as professional equipment. These will be sold exclusively through music stores.
- ↑ On The Road Back: Atari Donny Osmond, By Marc Naman , START VOL. 4 NO. 4 / NOVEMBER 1989, Donny Loves STACY
- ↑ The Music Makers:When It Comes to MIDI, the Pros Go ATARI, BY JIM PIERSON-PERRY WITH STEVE MORTIMER, START VOL. 4 NO. 12 / JULY 1990
- ↑ Time Capsule: The Atari Report - Spring 1990, by Sam Tramiel, Date: Mon, 23 Apr 1990, We're excited about the rapidly growing MIDI business and the enthusiasm being generated for the Stacy laptop computer among professionals in the music industry. Just recently we've learned that Atari computers were used to produce the sound track in the hit film, "Born on the Fourth of July" which received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Sound."
- ↑ Mark Tinley: Working With Duran Duran(Interview | Engineer), By NIGEL HUMBERSTONE, Published in SOS(Sound On Sound) February 1994, The sequencing system has been in operation since March '93 and is handled by an Atari Stacy 2 laptop computer running C-Lab Creator software and driving a rackmount Kurzweil K2000.
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокpigwastacyне указан текст - ↑ The Traveling Computers: Hands-On Preview of Atari's STACY and Portfolio, BY ANDREW REESE START EDITOR, START VOL. 4 NO. 3 / OCTOBER 1989
- ↑ News, Notes & Quotes, BY STEPHEN MORTIMER, START VOL. 4 NO. 9 / APRIL 1990, The Stacy 2 and Stacy 4 have passed FCC Class A certification. This frees the computer for business/industrial use, although no actual restrictions on sales are made by the FCC. Both systems come with the respective amount of memory and a 40MB Conner hard disk drive. The Stacy 1, floppy-disk version has not yet been approved.
- ↑ Introducing Bob Brodie, by Bob Brodie, START VOL. 5 NO. 7 / APRIL/MAY 1991, Some of the models of the Stacy feature a built-in hard disk. For example, the Stacy 4 ships with a 40MB Conner hard disk built in.
- ↑ ATARI STACY4 Computer, Model number: LST-4144, Computer History Museum
- ↑ Atari STacy, Starring the Computer
- ↑ https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/c-lab-unitor/4492
