When we moved to the states with my parents, I was told that bringing my atari stuff, 65xe, 1050 disk drive, tape drive, joysticks, a tons of disks and tapes , probably over 200 or more disks with lots of games, utilities, and so on , would be too much of hassle and to please sell it. I was almost 14. While I did receive a good amount , including the disk drive selling at the price of a brand new drive because of all the software I had, and the computer selling it well , I do regret selling my disks the most and to a lesser extent all my atari hardware , because my next computer, more than 2 years later was a PC.
but life goes on
In retrospect , I left wondering why I couldn't append data to disk when using basic program , to the amount of knowledge acquired by using PCs in terms of programming
So, I'm not sure everything happens for a reason, but things worked out
I still think the 8 bit computer , the atari 8 bit, is an amazing machine . In today's world where Vulkan is surpassing opengl, where we have game editors like unreal and unity, what atari had and it still has, is amazing