Jos,
I'm sorry but I feel the need to correct you
The Atari machines were easy to upgrade : Just replace the OS Eproms !

Still it is soo hard to believe Atari lost the competition with ólder IBM technology. They were fast, stable, easy to use, Motorola 68000 inside.... and with the MROS realy multitasking ! It took PC's (developers/hardware) another 10 to 15 years to reach the same level the ST's had in 1985
Only since 5 or 6 years PC's can compete with the mid-80'Atari's (music/midi) Realize the ST's run on 8 or 16 MHz while PC's need at least 600 (!!) MHz to run smoothly without timing problems........ Just to illustrate how inefficient PC's and Windows work

Roel

[This message has been edited by Roel (edited 09-03-2003).]