My first games machine was a C64. I later got an Amiga 500. Alas.... poor Amiga. I used them Horatio. Computers of infinite genius. The graphics were vastly superior to any other machine of similar price or power.
However, a few years after Amiga went, I started using an Atari... for MUSIC. Good old Cubase on an Ataria began my sequencing and programming life. Years after gamers had thrown them away, musicans were buying up cheap second hand Ataris and making music!! The college I taught at ended up buying any they could get their hands on. A number of early albums I did were only possible through Ataris.
Anyhow, then I went P.C. and ultimately to hard disk recording. I'm now on a Powerbook Mac G4 and couldn't be happier. I just bought OSX PANTHER, and it runs like a dream. All my music is now recorded on this little powerbeast. For music, Macs wipe the floor with any other system. No comparison.
But I have such fond memories of the Atari.... NOT!!! The number of times it went through the window!!! I seriously threw it across the room when it crashed as I went to save a song. Gone. Into the ether.
Needless to say, apple s is an automated action of mine.
