🚀 go-pugleaf

I would strongly recommend a 1040 color system as a starter (and
a damn good starter at that!)  It can be easily found for around
$850 new and better used.  It would include 1 meg of RAM and an
internal DD drive and would take care of 95%+ of the software out
there.  If you decide thats too much then drop the color monitor
and go for a mono - one of the best mono monitors out there.
Thats should cut a good %140-200 from the price.  I would not
recommend a 520ST because it only has 1/2 meg and much of the up
scale software needs more than that and upgrading to 1 meg or beyond
is costly (but not too difficult) so you may as well get all the
RAM you need right off the bat.  If you have a little more to spend
then by all means get a Mega 2 system - its Atari's new standard
machine and a mono system can be easily found for as little as $1,299
complete!

Pete