| [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 [message #426317] |
Tue, 07 January 2025 16:00  |
Francois LE COAT
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Hi,
Here is a video presentation of the ATARI ST at Las Vegas CES 1985:
*Atari ST Launch & First Public Demo* - *Winter CES 1985*
At the Rees channel 2022/01/07 LAS VEGAS
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcK4kCuYthA>
Atari 130ST and 520ST first public demo from the Winter Consumer
Electronics Show 1985, hosted in Las Vegas in January 1985.
In it the unknown announcer discusses the ST's TOS operating system and
its desktop - GEM - including its original CP/M-68K underpinnings, which
of course were replaced with GEMDOS shortly before release. There are a
few interesting differences between the version demoed here and the
final release, including the desktop icons which had to be changed due
to a lawsuit from Apple.
This video seems to have vanished from YouTube so I decided to upload
this segment for preservation.
This was 40 years ago, because the Las Vegas CES begins these days =)
--
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
https://eureka.atari.org/
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| [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 [message #426323 is a reply to message #426317] |
Tue, 07 January 2025 04:11  |
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Originally posted by: Darklord
I watched this from a link on Facebook - pretty interesting stuff!
Loved the way that TOS desktop was using DRI GEM PC icons and sort of
resembled a Mac (Lisa?). Coolness. :)
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| Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 [message #426366 is a reply to message #426323] |
Sun, 12 January 2025 09:30 |
Francois LE COAT
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Hi,
Darklord writes:
> I watched this from a link on Facebook - pretty interesting stuff!
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> Loved the way that TOS desktop was using DRI GEM PC icons and sort of
> resembled a Mac (Lisa?). Coolness. :)
I had an ATARI 1040STf in 1986, with a NEC printer and a monochrome
display. Then I had a MegaSTe 4 in 1991. And a Falcon030+882 in 1993,
with a multisync EZIO display. Then in June 1996 I had an ATARI clone
called Hades060 from Medusa Computer Systems. It was the first TT clone
bought from France, and maybe bought in the world, I suspect.
So I'm really fond of ATARI computers, and enjoy celebrating 40th
anniversary of presentation, at date of Las Vegas CES in January 1985.
It would really be great if ATARI remembered its ATARI ST computer
users, like me, specially because I'm an ATARI developer, and that
I like sharing my GEM software, as widely as it used to be from 1986
to 1996, and later than this decade, with the worldwide internet.
Maybe the ATARI firm has projects around this quarantine? It's there!
Best regards,
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François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeler)
https://eureka.atari.org/
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