New 1040STf owner with questions

[greenflannel]

Hello, this is my first post here, but hopefully far from the last! I recently rediscovered an old 1040STf that I left at my parents house when I left home to go to school. I remember purchasing the computer at a yard sale for $5 in the box. Anyways, I am not lucky enough to have the model with a composite video output, and have done some research on how to hook this guy up without an original monitor. My burning question is: what should I do with the system while I wait to source out a monitor setup? Are there internal components I should clean or look to replace? How about cleaning the case? It's pretty yellowed, and I'd love to restore it to it's former glory! If anyone is interested, I'm happy to take some pictures of my newly rediscovered treasure.

 

Thank you!

[zzip]

I have ST monitors that I'm looking to sell. If interested, PM me and we can work something out

[mattsoft]

I have ST monitors that I'm looking to sell. If interested, PM me and we can work something out

 

 

Oh yeah? What do you have?

 

In response to the original poster: take it apart, clean the case with hot water and dish soap. if you are going to retrobrite, give it a bath in vinegar to degrease it first. as for displays, you can pick up a DIN to VGA adapter and connect your ST to certain LCD displays that have a horz frequency of 15khz. This is what I'm doing now until I can find an original Atari monitor.

[Nebulon]

You could make disks with this utility:

 

http://atari.8bitchip.info/floimgd.php

 

IBM PC 720K DS/DD disks are what you'd need. Then you can have some games ready to go for when the machine's all cleaned up.

 

I know that it works under Windows XP.

[cbmbsw]

even under windows7 ...