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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 simoulator (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 muc
       
       During the process I ran into some 'best practices' regarding the Atari TT.
       
 (DIR) Atari TT hardware I use
 (DIR) Atari TT software I use
       
       FreeMINT is a MiNT distribution that creates a full multitasking environment
 (DIR) FreeMINT on the TT