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                          Registration No. 333-________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                          MANCHESTER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                           New York                              11-2312854
         (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation     (I.R.S. Employer
                                  or organization)           Identification No.)

                      160 Oser Avenue                              11788
                  Hauppauge, New York                           (Zip Code)
           (Address of principal executive offices)

             Manchester Technologies, Inc. Amended and Restated 1996
                  Incentive and Non-Incentive Stock Option Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)

                               BARRY R. STEINBERG
                          Manchester Technologies, Inc.
                                 160 Oser Avenue
                            Hauppauge, New York 11788
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (631) 951-8100
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE





                                                                              Proposed           Proposed
                                                                               Maximum           Maximum
                                                          Amount            Offering Price       Aggregate        Amount of
                                                           to be              Per Share       Offering Price  Registration Fee
        Title of Securities to be Registered            Registered               (1)                (1)             (1)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                    
                    Common Stock                     1,500,000 shares (2)          $10.16              $15,240,000    $1,794


(1)  Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee. Pursuant
     to Rule 457, the Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share and the Proposed
     Maximum Aggregate  Offering Price is based upon the average of the high and
     low prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on January 5, 2005, as reported
     on the Nasdaq National Market.


(2)  The shares  covered by this  Registration  Statement  represent  the common
     stock issuable to participants under the Registrant's  Amended and Restated
     1996 Incentive and Non-Incentive Stock Option Plan, as amended. Pursuant to
     Rule 416(a) of the  Securities  Act of 1933,  as amended  (the  "Securities
     Act"), this  Registration  Statement shall also cover any additional shares
     of the  Registrant's  common stock that become issuable hereby by reason of
     any  stock  dividend,  stock  split,   recapitalization  or  other  similar
     transaction  effected without the receipt of  consideration  that increases
     the number of the Registrant's outstanding shares of common stock.













                      STATEMENT UNDER GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
                      REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES

     This Registration  Statement on Form S-8 registers additional securities of
the same class as other  securities for which a  Registration  Statement on Form
S-8 relating to the  Manchester  Technologies,  Inc.  Amended and Restated  1996
Incentive  and  Non-Incentive  Stock  Option Plan,  as amended,  (the "Plan") is
effective.   Accordingly,  pursuant  to  General  Instruction  E  to  Form  S-8,
Manchester   Technologies,   Inc.  (the  "Registrant")  hereby  incorporates  by
reference  herein  the  contents  of such  Registration  Statement  on Form  S-8
(Registration  No.  333-71255)(the  "Prior  Registration  Statement") and hereby
deems such contents to be a part hereof, except as otherwise updated or modified
by this Registration Statement.



                                     PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.           Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents, which have been previously filed by the Registrant
with the Securities and Exchange  Commission (the "Commission")  pursuant to the
Securities   Exchange  Act  of  1934,  as  amended  (the  "Exchange  Act"),  are
incorporated by reference herein::

     1. The  Registrant's  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended
July 31, 2004, filed with the Commission on October 29, 2004.

     2. The Registrant's  Quarterly  Report on Form 10-Q for its fiscal quarter
ended October 31, 2004, filed with the Commission on December 14, 2004.

     3. The  Registrant's  Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission
on October 29, 2004 and  November 8, 2004.

     All  documents  filed by the  Registrant  with the  Commission  pursuant to
Sections  13(a),  13(c),  14 and 15(d) of the  Exchange  Act  subsequent  to the
effectiveness  of this  Registration  Statement  and  prior to the  filing  of a
post-effective  amendment  hereto  that  either  indicates  that all  securities
offered  hereby have been sold or  deregisters  all  securities  then  remaining
unsold shall be deemed to be  incorporated  by  reference  in this  Registration
Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any
statement  contained in a document  incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference  herein shall be deemed to be modified or  superseded  for purposes of
this Registration  Statement to the extent that a statement  contained herein or
in any  other  subsequently  filed  document  that  also is or is  deemed  to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such
statement so modified or superseded  shall not be deemed,  except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

     The Registrant will provide without charge to each participant in the Plan,
on the written or oral request of any such  person,  a copy of any or all of the
documents  incorporated  herein  by  reference  (other  than  exhibits  to  such
documents  which  are  not  specifically   incorporated  by  reference  in  such
documents).  Written requests for such copies should be addressed to: Manchester

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Technologies,  Inc.,  160 Oser  Avenue,  Hauppauge,  New York  11788.  To obtain
information   by  telephone,   participants   should  call  the   Registrant  at
631-951-8100.

Item 6.           Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Item 6 in the  Prior  Registration  Statement  is  amended  by  adding  the
following:

     The Registrant has entered into an agreement with Elan Yaish, the Company's
Chief Financial Officer, indemnifying him to the fullest extent permitted by law
and  the  Registrant's  Restated  Certificate  of  Incorporation.   The  Company
maintains a directors' and officers' insurance policy which insures the officers
and directors of the Company from any claim  arising out of an alleged  wrongful
act by such persons in their respective  capacities as officers and directors of
the Company.

Item 8.           Exhibits.

     The following are filed as exhibits to this Registration Statement:






         Exhibit                    Description
         No.

          4.1  Registrant's  Amended and Restated 1996 Incentive and
               Non-Incentive  Stock  Option  Plan,  as  amended,  with  forms of
               Incentive Stock Option Agreement and  Non-Incentive  Stock Option
               Agreement.

          5.1  Opinion  of  Jaspan  Schlesinger  Hoffman  LLP,  counsel  to  the
               Registrant,   as  to  the  legality  of  the   securities   being
               registered.

          23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

          23.2 Consent of Jaspan  Schlesinger  Hoffman LLP  (included in Exhibit
               5.1).

          24.1 Power of Attorney (included on signature page).


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                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in Hauppauge, New York, on this 10th day of January, 2005.

                                         MANCHESTER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.


                                         By: /s/ Barry R. Steinberg
                                         -------------------------
                                               Barry R. Steinberg
                                           President and Chief Executive Officer


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below does hereby constitute and appoint Barry R. Steinberg and Elan
Yaish, and each or any of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including, without limitation, post-effective amendments and documents in
connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact
and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact and agent or either of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities set forth and on the date indicated.




Signature                                Title                                  Date
- ---------                                -----                                  ----
                                                                          
 /s/ Barry R. Steinberg                  President, Chief Executive Officer,    January 10, 2005
- ----------------------                   Chairman of the Board and Director
Barry R. Steinberg                       (Principal Executive Officer)


/s/ Elan Yaish                           Chief Financial Officer, Vice          January 10, 2005
- --------------                           President Finance and Assistant
Elan Yaish                               Secretary (Principal Accounting
                                         Officer and Principal Financial
                                         Officer)

/s/ Joel G. Stemple                      Director                               January 10, 2005
- -------------------
Joel G. Stemple

 /s/ Joel Rothlein                       Director                               January 10, 2005
- -----------------
Joel Rothlein

/s/ Michael Russell                      Director                               January 10, 2005
- -----------------------
Michael Russell

 /s/ Bert Rudofsky                       Director                               January 10, 2005
- -----------------
Bert Rudofsky

 /s/ Julian Sandler                      Director                               January 10, 2005
- ------------------
Julian Sandler

 /s/ Yacov A. Shamash                    Director                               January 10, 2005
- --------------------
Yacov A. Shamash



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                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

    Exhibit No.                            Description
   -----------                             -----------

     4.1  Registrant's  Amended and Restated 1996  Incentive  and  Non-Incentive
          Stock Option Plan,  as amended,  with forms of Incentive  Stock Option
          Agreement and Non-Incentive Stock Option Agreement.

     5.1  Opinion of Jaspan Schlesinger  Hoffman LLP, counsel to the Registrant,
          as to the legality of the securities being registered.

     23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

     23.2 Consent of Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

     24.1 Power of Attorney (included on signature page).





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