Hi, got my first st right at the end of the commercial st scene in the uk. I remember buying the last few copies of atari world off the shelf when they made an announcement in one issue that they were changing the paper it would be printed on to keep costs down because of low circulation.It went from glossy paper to something akin to toilet roll.How good is that :)

I had bought my st complete with various disks and gradually waded through them where there were quit a few menus,automation amongst them but nothing to suggest that the crews were still active......and bam! in more recent times to my great surprise and pleasure dbug become active again :)I remember the most recent disks in there were from stosser software a group avidly supporting atari at the time,anybody remember heartlands with the dizzy sprite and hero 1 and 2 ?

In the interim my st had been stored away like so many i suppose{though i never forgot it} and the pc took over.Then the  emulation scene came which rekindled my interest and realised i could write back the images to real hardware and the st came back out of storage,decided to buy an ste and have 2 now,one upstairs complete with monitor master for switching between mono and colour monitors and one downstairs hooked up to the television{my wife thinks im sad}
I also have a current brother hl-5240 laser printer http://www.brother.co.uk/g3.cfm/s_page/166900/s_level/38090/s_product/HL5240ZU1 hooked up which works great
It has emulation mode for PCL6, BR-Script 3, IBM Proprinter XL, Epson FX-850 which  it enters depending on the type of data it receives,hence easy to use with an st

Its a continuing voyage of discovery really,much of the stuff im seeing for the first time around including the majority of dbugs patches and its great fun,plenty of free software :)and the st seems more popular now than when i first had it :)

So what is it that i like so much about this little grey/yellow box,i dont know but st graphics /sounds fill me with joy :)

tara  for now :)