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| Release date | 1991[1][2] |
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| Introductory price | US$1,799 (equivalent to $4,020 in 2023) |
| Operating system | Atari TOS |
| CPU | Motorola 68000 @ 8 MHz or 16 MHz |
| Memory | 1, 2 or 4 MB |
| Display | 320×200 (16 of 4096 colors) 640×200 (4 of 4096 colors) 640×400 (mono) |
| Graphics | BLiTTER |
| Sound | Yamaha YM2149 |
The Atari Mega STE is Atari Corporation's final Motorola 68000-based personal computer in the Atari ST series and the second to last model overall. Released in 1991, the Mega STE is a late-model STE mounted in the case of an Atari TT computer. It was followed by the higher end Atari Falcon in 1992.
- ^ The Music & Computer Educator - Volume 2, Issues 1-6, 1991, Page 27, By Lorenz Rychner, ...True to their slogans, "power without the price" and "the computer for the rest of us," Atari has made it ... The MEGA STE (retail prices starting at $1,799.00)...
- ^ Z*Net Newswire: Atari at Comdex 1990, Mega STE a Reality, By John Nagy, START VOL. 5 NO. 6 / FEBRUARY/MARCH 1991, ...The Mega STE is real (this report was written on one). The configuration is as predicted months ago: A casing identical to the TT, although in grey rather than off-white, with 4MB RAM, an internal 40MB hard disk, LAN and VME ports, a 16MHz clock speed, and the new TT-style Desktop. The Mega STE is not in production yet but may see distribution in early 1991 with a retail base price of around $1,200. At least five Mega STEs were set up in the Atari booth along with several TTs...