Servicing Personal Computers, 3rd Edition

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power which had hitherto been seen only in machines costing at least four times as much! It is,

therefore, not surprising that the ST has received so many accolades and is now in use in

millions of homes and small businesses.

The ST pre-dated its nearest

rival,

the Commodore Amiga, by nearly twelve months. This

gave Atari a considerable edge over the opposition and it also enabled software developers to

produce a range of titles well in advance of those for the Amiga.

At the outset, the ST found a particular niche in the market for reasonably priced yet

powerful systems capable of running graphically orientate ...