The Atari ST was born from the rivalry between home computer makers Atari, Inc. and Commodore International. Jay Miner, one of the designers of the custom chips in the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers, tried to convince Atari … 展开

The original 520ST case design was created by Ira Velinsky, Atari's chief Industrial Designer. It is wedge-shaped, with bold angular lines and … 展开

1040ST
Atari upgraded the basic design in 1986 with the 1040STF, stylized as 1040ST : essentially a 520ST with twice the RAM and with the power supply … 展开

The ST's low cost, built-in MIDI ports, and fast, low-latency response times made it a favorite with musicians.
• Prominent Russian film music and song composer Aleksandr Zatsepin started using personal computers for work with Atari 1040ST and … 展开

After six months of intensive effort following Tramiel's takeover, Atari announced the 520ST at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 1985. … 展开

As with the Atari 8-bit computers, software publishers attributed their reluctance to produce Atari ST products in part to—as Compute! reported in 1988—the belief in the existence of a "higher-than-normal amount of software piracy". That year, WordPerfect 展开

All STs are made up of both custom and commercial chips.
• Custom chips:
• Support chips: 展开