EdTorockio

Thanks! Had to put off working on the Atari for a little bit. Ordered 1.04 online and should be here this weekend. Also picked up a Mega 2. Will see how this works with the TOS update. The nice thing about the Mega is it has a blitter, and a 1.44 HD floppy.

Lotharek from the auction site, with shipping came to be about $145 If I can get it working will let you know.

Appreciate everyone's experience and recommendations. Here are my purchase updates and what is and isnt working. I've been able to get an old LCD hooked up with a Dinn to VGA cable. But it doesnt support color, and I have another cable ordered. Hooked up an external Floppy SF314 with external brick power supply Ultasatan arrived today Received UMS the universal military simulator Aftermarket mouse Atari Joystick Shadowgate game ordered Noticing some weird things, I probably need to read more online but not yet sure where to get the info. First, when I hooked up my Ultrasatan and popped in the SD card that came with it, it looks like it was partitioned into several drives. When I open up the games folder, none of the individual games listes (which included old favs like 1943) had any actual files in them. Second, the ST recognizes the UMS floppy, sees there are files, but wont run them.

Nice, I know of 1 other ST owner I met on FB recently. There is a Retro Computer Group for Raleigh on FB. You should consider joining. Right now there are less than 20 members, all different retro PCs, but there is talk of meeting potentially for an ongoing club. Look me up on FB too. Ed Torockio. Ordered one last night, its a 720k. Id preferr a 1.44mb but its a start. Also planning on getting a Gotek or Ultrasatan. Really need to find one in a case however. I too am skeptical. Although the seller says it works. I have a cable ordered on fingers crossed will be here in a week. Which is a long time to wait. Thanks for the responses everyone! Keep em coming. Ed

Here is the image of the inside that was posted on ebay:

Hi Everyone. Introductions. I'm Ed from Pittsburgh, PA now in Raleigh, NC. I grew up in the 80's and 90's. First computer that was mine was an Atari 130XE. Sadly, after going to college, graduating, getting married yadda yadda... my parents decided to clean house in and it with my entire software collection, working printer, 1050, controllers, everything was donated to a GoodWill. Who know someone in this forum may be enjoying it to this day, I surely hope so. It had always been a dream of mine to own an ST however. My Dad and I used to go to the local WACO (Westmoreland Atari Computer Organization) that met once a month. One day around 1987 I saw demonstrated at the club an ST running GEM TOS and I was hooked. Had Macs, and PCs, and PowerPCs, etc... but always wanted to go back and get an ST Today it arrived. An Atari 520STM upgraded to 1 MB and some "video modifications" Only paid $60 for it so I figured would give it a try and if it doesnt work - could be a fun project to try to fix. I am good with a soldering iron, my other hobby is working on Nscale model trains - so yeah, small wire and parts I am good with soldering on. Here is the image from ebay: From Ebay: "This computer has been fitted with a memory expansion board, so it has 1 megabyte of RAM. It also has a modification to the video circuit, as shown in the pictures. I do not know what this does, but I suspect that it may convert the RF output from a modulated signal (requiring a TV with an NTSC tuner on channel 3 or 4) to a composite (unmodulated) video signal. I did not test this video output however, I only tested the RGB output as shown, which works. The mouse port also works, but I did not test any other external ports." Already ordered a 13pin din to VGA cable with 3.5mm sound which is on its way. I have an old 4:8 ratio LCD screen that has inputs for: VGA, S-video, Composite, 3.5mm sound, and Component. I have a lead on a 760k floppy external drive. My question to the group is - what else do you recommend - where do I go from here? Should I take the hood off and look inside, or wait for the accessories to arrive. Thanks Everyone! Ed