These machines were famous for being:
*Inferior to the [[Amiga]] yet still better (the war still rages on nowadays). It was easier to do work on Atari, while on Amiga a guru meditation (machine crash) was never far away. Also an hard drive was less necessary as the TOS was in ROMwhich meant it could be used immediately and it didn't consume valuable RAM.
*A hardware [[MIDI|Midi Port]] : this spawned a generation of Musician Geeks.