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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by m-i-l on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:48AM (#40759130)
> "Price. By far."

In the UK, the Atari ST was originally £299 while the Amiga was £499, so it's not really fair to compare the two. I was able to save up for an ST with various weekend and school holiday jobs, but there's no way I could have saved up for an Amiga (and the only classmates I knew with Amigas had their parents buy it for them).

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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by cmrdporcupine on Saturday June 22, 2024 @10:49AM (#40759494)
Exactly. At 13 or 14 I got a used 520STfm + mono monitor with my own hard-earned cash from returning bottles to the bottle recycling repo and other chores. Amiga 1000 + monitor was basically double. There's no way I could afford it. For me the choice was Atari ST or Commodore C128 (which I was set to buy until I learned about the ST)

Amiga 500 evened things out a little bit, but it was still a step up.

Price per mhz/MB was better than anything else out there.

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