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       This is the place I keep some valuable Atari info. 
       
       This is mainly about the Atari ST/TT line. Back in the '80s and
       early '90s I was an avid user of my  Atari ST.
       
       I started to use the ST for university stuff first: the SPICE
       electronics simulator (only available on Atari ST at the time!),
       wrote my reports on it in 1st Word and Signum!.
       
       My thesis I wrote on an emulated Mac in Spectre GCR. My Atari was
       faster than the Mac and had a larger B/W screen. I think I used
       Framemaker to write my final thesis.
       
       After Uni, the ST was used for a lot of other stuff, like midi and
       programming in C (I used Pure C).
       I must have ditched the machine at some point - I don't remember
       and maybe that's good because later I hated myself for it.
       
       The original launching of the Atari TT was too late for me and
       maybe also too expensive back in the days.
       
       Fast forward to 2023: I dug up a severely battered, abused Atari
       TT030/4 at an auction. To make it run again I was kind of forced to
       dive much deeper into the TT than I had ever anticipated.
       
       Fast forward to 2024: my girlfriend bought me a beautiful Falcon!
       Of course, I also dived into the Falcon, with mixed success...
       
       During the process I ran into some 'best practices' :-)
       
 (DIR) Atari TT hardware
 (DIR) Atari Falcon
 (DIR) Atari software I use
       
       FreeMINT is a MiNT distribution that creates a full multitasking 
       environment. You can use it to transpose the TT from a simple 
       multitasking GEM machine up to a Unix workstation - and all 
       varieties in between. It is a bit steep of a learning curve though.
       
 (TXT) FreeMINT on the TT