Comment by badc0ffee

I had a XT clone + Hercules at the time (and SIMCGA for games), and the 50Hz refresh wasn't as bad as you'd think - the MDA CRTs were designed with slow decay phosphors to reduce flicker.

I actually had no idea that Atari made a laser printer. Everyone I knew with a ST (admittedly, not many people) was either doing MIDI or playing video games.