TT

The Atari TT030 (Thirty-two Thirty-two) was released in 1990 and offered a large boost in processing power over the older ST models. The CPU used was the fully thirty-two bit Motorola 68030 running at 32Mhz. Other features distinguishing this model from previous models included:

• A new style case with a detachable professional keyboard. The case also acted as a stand for the monitor.
• A Motorola 68882 maths co-processor as standard.
• Up to 12Mb of standard ST.
• Up to 128Mb of TT RAM.
• VGA port and enhanced video resolutions.
• Internal SCSI hard drive support.
• Appletalk compatible network port.
• A VMEbus slot.
• Later models came with a 1.44Mb floppy drive.
• A new version of TOS, 3.x

One notable absence was the missing blitter chip first introduced in the Mega ST range.

Magazine References

• STart, volume 5, issue 6, p22-30 & p64-65 (Review)