Imagesource: Bill Bertram, 2006, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Guilty. ATARI and especially the ST are definitely not among our most often cited systems in our little publication. One of the reasons could be a computer manufactured by Commodore in the 80s with a 500 in the name, then to be found in the room of one of the authors.

Nevertheless we will neither start a flame war, nor will we discriminate in any way. Therefore the following post by Paul Lefebvre aka @lefebvre definitely has to be part of that issue.

The hero of Paul's little story is the ATARI 1040ST as it was launched in 1986 and was to become, among other technological achievements, formative for a whole generation. Those who have owned an ST (I feel sorry 👹) won't necessarily find much new in Paul's treatise, but for everyone else a very rounded summary of the machine and its capabilities.

And if you haven't subscribed to Paul's newsletter yet, you should check out other articles from the past weeks and months. It's worth it.