Upgrading? or was that down grading?
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My roots began with what I believe was the best home computer on the market. The Atari/ Having had the Atari 2600 and provably over one hundred carts for it the name Atari to me meant FUN. I was not a young person at the time though like most, I was in my late 20s. I looked over the whole computer market and purchased an Atari 400, basic cart, and a Atari 410 cass. The total seemed alot to spend at the time, almost 400.00 After adding a game for it. Later I added an Atari 800 and 2 Percom disk drives to my setup for only 1100.00 US
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Life was good!
I bought other systems as well, when I could buy them used, sold by people moving up to an Atari system.
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To name a few Commodore 64, TI/99, and a Timex Sinclair 1000. I few others I have omitted. These systems had some neat hardware and sofeware as well that come with them. I believe the 80s Rocked. I stayed with the Atari because in the day no other computer came close to its abilitys hardware wise. Support wise and marketing IMHO Atari never had a clue, and I have to say beyond a shadow of a doupt Commodore kicked major butt. The C64 was just plain inferior to the Atari 800 hardware wise but they had it altogether as far as marketing. There was more software and hardware for the C64 it was easy to see that it was the most popular computer ever sold. (An this coming from a devote Atari user
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Well many of the folks that left Atari designed a 2nd Generation Atari 800. Eventually it would be named the Amiga. Yes As always Commodore had the sence and marketing savy to snap up purchase of it in the early stages and to successfully market it. IMHO except for lame 256k version of the Amiga 1000, it was state of the art at the time. Atari now owned by the Tremels release the 520ST to the Atari community but I believe it was the 2nd generation C64 without the marketing Savy or 3rd party support that the C64 had enjoyed. Atari had by this time lost much of its support by 3rd party and not even the Tremels who had helped make the C64 software and userbase what it was could not affectively market it against the Amiga. Plus hardware wise the Amiga was much better.
Back to me, though I was very involved with the Atari community, I still bought an Amiga 1000, and a 500 as well. I was not much of a Commdore supporter though and I stayed on the sidelines of that community. If asked what my favorite systems were I have to say Atari. If asked what the best and most supported system was I would have to say the Amiga. Not that it matters any more, I have a very good Amiga emulator as well as an Atari one too. I sold all my computers other than the IBM compatables long ago but my oldest son who is 17 now has a 520 ST, and a Atari Falcon, besides his 1800+ AMD clone
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