Finally some intelligent thread at atariage

[Petari]

TOS boot disk talk
Yeah, adding cartridge (normal capacity is 128 KB) - sure, that's what average user does - order (buy) some cartridge to make his not so cheap computer working well ? Sorry, I named this 'intelligent thread' - and yes, there are some such posts. If you are interested really, please read all it carefully, and most important think about it really carefully. We can easily blame people for some mistakes, but without knowing details all it is just shallowness, and often with really bad conclusions.
Tramiel was good, surely not perfect, made many mistakes, but that's the price of doing something new - there were mistakes with C64 too, still, it was most sold 8-bit home computer. ST was good idea, and pretty well sold. ST means compromise between 16 and 32 bits - and I think that it was done very well, if not best in those years (1985-1989) .

[Ronald J. Hall]

I agree. People seem to forget the cost angle too.

When I was looking for an upgrade into the 16 bit world from my Atari 8bit,
the ST was by far, the best performance vs cost ratio that I could find.

The Amiga was released later that same year, but man, $1500.00 just for
the main unit, keyboard and mouse! Too rich for my blood.

I picked Atari ST and I've never regretted it.