Let me introduce myself, I will almost guarantee there is someone here who actually has met me.
I grew up on the Derbyshire/Notts boarder in th 80's and had an 800XL, with a Happy/US Doubler switched 1050 floppy drive, then I bought a 520STFM ~1987 I think (I was at work, but I couldn't drive, I borrowed money from the bank (had to see someone face to face!), caught a bus into town to buy it, around the time there being talk of a 260ST? And an Amiga was a rare sight, I'd seen an A1000 at a local computer club, but I don't think anyone I knew had seen an A500. Certainly my Commodore loyal friends were still C64/128 owners, I was I'm pretty sure the first of us to hop to 16 bit, I had a job, not a YTS nor college student so I had a few quid comparatively, I also didn't start learning to drive till I was 18 so £££ in there too!
And I stayed ST loyal until I went to an Amiga A1200 late 1992/early 1993 I guess
I'm sure these price level release dates are better known now.
So fast forward though PC ownership (never had a massive gaming PC though), N64 (US import, I waited to check they didn't region lock the games) to today, divorced and house sitting in a friends mums house (she's moved into care) while it's on the market, and doing a bit of clearing out.
And what do I find?
An Atari 1040STe, mono monitor and a small old but flat screen colour TV with a scart socket! I can't find the ST-Scart lead, but it does fire up in mono, the mouse isn't OE and lt only moves one way horizontally (so I guess that's a mouse issue), so I've eBay'd a mouse converter and an STe Scart lead.
Exciting
