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The Atari TT (or also see TT030) was supposed to be the successor of the Atari ST. It was based on the Motorola 68030 CPU, sporting a workstation-like design with a detached keyboard rather than the homecomputer-like design the ST had.

The TT was originally to be released in 1988, but didn't make it to the market before 1990. It was not exactly a commercial success.

TT030 was widely used in DTP industry mainly with Calamus application.

Also used as development environment for Atari Jaguar game console.

The abbreviation 'TT' allegedly stood for Thirtytwo-Thirtytwo, just like 'ST' allegedly stood for Sixteen-Thirtytwo (both being references to the number of CPU registers and bus address registers).

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Technical specifications

  • CPU: Motorola 68030 @ 32Mhz (originally @ 16Mhz)
  • RAM: 2 MB STRAM expandable to 12 MB; up to 256 MB TT RAM on daughter board
  • Sound: Yamaha YM2149 + enhanced sound chip same as in STe
  • Drive: 1.44 MB 3½" floppy disk drive
  • Ports: MIDI In/Out, 3 x RS-232, Serial LAN RS-422, Printer, VGA Monitor (RGB and Mono), Extra Disk drive port, SCSI port, VMEbus inside case, detachable keyboard, Joystick and Mouse ports on keyboard
  • Operating System: TOS (Tramiel Operating System) with the GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) GUI
  • Display modes: 320×200 (16 colour), 640×200 (4 colour), 640×400 (mono), 640×480 (16 colour), 320×480 (256 colours), 1280×960 (mono TT high with special 19" monitor), palette of 4096 colours
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