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Atari TOS Hard Disk Icon Background/Wallpaper

by Mike Knotts · Published July 5, 2024 · Updated July 5, 2024

The Hard Disk icon from TOS Operating System for Atari’s ST, Mega and TT computers

Representing the hierarchy of disks(volumes), directories, subdirectories, and files, presented a challenge when inventing graphical user interfaces for computers. Today, we’ve settled on the folder/sub-folder/file paradigm for Windows and Macs. Early GUIs had similar, yet distinct versions of this. For Atari’s TOS OS, disks were represented by drawers, in which both folders and files could be stored and accessed.

This downloadable file contains transparent PNGs of the famous Atari ST Drawer Icon in multiple resolutions:

72×40
144×80
126×120
288×160
576×320
720×400
864×480

Download · File size = 8.6 KB · Download Count: 24

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Mike Knotts

Mike Knotts was born in 1968 in a small town in southern Indiana. Even when very young, Mike showed a love for all-things technical and sci-fi. Moving with his family to California in the early 80's, he eventually graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in History. Rather than put that to good use, Mike continued to pursue his passion for technology by working for early, regional ISP's in the mid 1990's. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where he works as a project manager for an Internet startup. Mike is a co-founder of Geekometry.