20 August 2020
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So, now it is the second month after i decided, that an Atari 520ST will 
be my primary PC. What have i learned so far? 

1. 1 MB can be HUGE
In todays world of Gigabytes, Terabytes and an nearly endless supply of 
online space, you tend to think BIG. The first weeks after i started my 
retro adventure, i thought, i would never fit all the data i need for my 
dayly routine on tiny 720 kb floppydisks... i mean, look at an normal word 
file: You will be easyly in the megabyte-range. But surprisingly... it 
works. The first weeks i saved only on floppydisks, but after i purchased 
an ATARI SH205 Harddisk (with gigantic 25 MB for storage!) for a few bucks  
i have clearly no need for more room. I have installed my needed 
applications on one 5 MB partition, use the other for my files and have 
still much, much room left.

Its a sobering thougt how much space is today just wasted by overhead...


2. Single-Tasking is a challenge, but possible better in the end
Ok, its a bit of a challenge to switch from multiple open browser tabs, a 
playing youtube video, a word processor running in the background and a 
graphics suite i just forget to close to just 1  active task. I took me a 
while, but now i think i am much more productive... at least i have not a 
ton of distractions that keep me from working.


3. The software is GOOD
One may think an over 30 year old computer would have only crappy software 
by todays standard... but i was totally surprised how good, lean and 
productive the software for this system is. I use mainly spreadsheets and 
word processors for my daily routine, but they all work like a charm and 
are just working "snappy".