Atari TT: The affordable workstation

After an amazingly short 6 months of of development time, the Atari 520ST was introduced in January 1985. It was available for purchase (in the US) starting in July 1985, almost exactly one year from when Jack Tramiel acquired Atari from Warner Communications.

Going from an idea to a shipping computer in about a year was impressive. But what was Atari to…