I still have half a dozen Atari STs around - all of them were working
when I or someone I knew 'graduated' to more modern machinery. There
were a bunch of things an ST would do, that I haven't found elsewhere
yet. The simplicity of a pooter that would boot up in a minute, and be
ready for MIDI sequencing, cover art drawing, desktop publishing, or
home accounting...I wax nostalgic. Seems that the more complex the
computer system, the less I actually accomplish with it. I've just
spent three days in a row wrestling with a Mac and a Winbox, trying to
get them to do half of what they're supposed to do - in the old days,
with an Atari, I'd have sequenced several songs (Mastertracks), drawn
cassette cover art (DEGAS Elite), printed it out (Calamus), and kept a
spreadsheet (EZ Calc) of how much time and money I'd spent on the
project by now. All within 4Megs of RAM; a 100Meg hard drive would
hold nearly every Atari program written.
