The Atari colour screen was so ugly :( I loved the black and white display though. For the times it was really high-res and very smooth refresh.

I went from Atari 8-bit to the Amiga though. Never really was a commodore fan but I found out later that the Amiga was mostly developed by the Atari team and the Atari ST by the Commodore team - lol. A side-effect of all the business skullduggery by Jack Tramiel in those days.

I often wonder what the world would look like now if those companies had survived like Apple did. And also Sun Microsystems. I could see one of them partnering with Sun like Apple did with NeXT to bring their OS into the next century. Or BeOS perhaps.