Anyone know what happened to the 2080/4160 STf's

[carmel_andrews]

I definately remember seeing them demo'd on the atari stand at the London PCW show (i think that was the first time they'd been seen outside the US)

 

I also remember that they already had the blitter upgrade built in (perhaps these systems were to have the blitter built in as standard or that the 2080/4160 stf's were the proto's of what became the Mega series, only difference is Atari included a 1meg version of the mega series)

[ParanoidLittleMan]

What year was it ?

I guess that instead mentioned STFs (with maybe SIM RAM sockets ?), Atari went on STE machines, with easy upgradeable RAM.

[tjlazer]

(Well for the STE series mostly) They were not meant to be official releases, but merely dealer upgraded models that they could sell. ie upgrade the RAM to 2MB and slap on a 2080ST label.

 

I'm sure if Atari were planning to release a 2MB or 4MM B STf it was shelved in favor for the Mega ST series.

Edited July 12, 2012 by tjlazer

[macgoo]

This was around the time of the 1040STF ie before the 520STFM and they did intend to sell such machines, however as a 4mb ST's cost is mainly the RAM chips they decided they could offer the Mega ST instead for a similar price and have a less home computer looking product for business. They were also going to put the blitter into these 4160 and 2080STF machines so I guess reworking the motherboard they thought might as well do it properly and have something businesses would not reject (given the cost of 4mb RAM it was never going to be a home computer).

 

I could be wrong but the first Mega ST was indeed the 4mb no? This was followed later by the Mega 2 and the Mega 1 machines later on.