Atari Is Shipping 520 ST Computer

The New York Times

July 10, 1985,

San Francisco -- July 9, 1985 -- Atari Inc. has begun shipments of its 520 ST computer to distributors, a company official said. But it might take a week or so for the machines to reach dealers' shelves, according to James Copland, vice president of marketing, who added that Atari planned to ship ''well in excess of 25,000'' units in the next three or four weeks. The machine's debut was originally scheduled for April. As late as last week, dealers were in the dark about when it would appear.

The 520 ST will sell for $800 with a monochrome monitor, 512,000 characters of internal memory, a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive as well as two computer languages, Basic and Logo. A version with a color monitor will sell for $1,000.