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 the TOS was in ROM which meant mean it could be used immediately and it didn't consume valuable RAM.
*A hardware [[MIDI|Midi Port]] : this spawned a generation of Musician Geeks.