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Bill Rehbock's avatar

I sold many MegaST desktop publishing systems as a value-added reseller in the Midwest, alongside the PC clones that I was selling. The MegaST paved the way for phenomenal DTP apps that came out of Germany such as Retouche, Didot Line Art, and of course, Calamus. I sold many copies of PageStream, which was available for the ST and Amiga, and a great competitor to the likes of PageMaker and Quark on the Mac.

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Siegfried's avatar

I had a Mega ST2 and did not find it hard to mod. The motherboard had empty positions for another 2MB of RAM which I installed with the help of a friend. Compared to PCs of the era the Mega ST was much smaller, enabling me to carry it around as hand luggage for that upgrade. Typical 5 ¼" hard discs available at the time of the Mega ST's launch would have been too big to mount internally. I did install an internal hard drive much later which still required removal of the RF shield to fit. With a piggyback board for TOS 2.06 it would even boot from hard disc and run the multitasking MagiC OS. Piggyback boards (PAK68) allowing upgrades to 68020 and even 68030 and up to 64K fast RAM based on an article in renowned computer magazine c't were available in Germany (https://www.wrsonline.de/pak3.html - German).

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