Check the listing for details. ATARI EXPLORER ~ Spring 1990 ~ NEW! ~ Editorial that got Dave & Betsy Ahl Fired!. Listed at 6.95 USD. ATARI EXPLORER ~ Spring 1990 ~ BRAND NEW Featuring the Editorial that got Dave and Betsy Ahl Fired ATARI EXPLORER ~ Spring 1990. Mint copy, no creases, no wrinkles, bright white pages, vivid colors, cover perfect. BRAND NEW! Issue can be AUTOGRAPHED by David Ahl and Betsy Staples if you wish. Why would you want this? Read on. Issue Highlights: Building a small business with your home computer—the complete Atari home office. Reviews of critical path scheduling, tracking the stock market, an ultra MIDI work station, flight instruction, and 12 new games. Also BASIC code for the great Oregon Trail ("Westward Ho!") game by David Ahl, results of a major reader survey, letters, news & views, new products, dealer directory, and much more. Please see scan for complete contents. The Editorial that got Dave and Betsy Ahl Fired. Are you kidding? No, I am not! The big honchos at Atari were so incensed at Betsy's editorial describing how Atari was not paying its bills and more, that we were out the door the next day. Our contract with Atari that we had fulfilled to the letter for the past 5 years was all of a sudden null and void. If you only own one issue of Atari Explorer, this should be the one! You won't find this issue on the Internet Archive either because Atari bigwigs did everything they could to prevent its distribution. Brief History of Atari Explorer. After bringing out the ST computer, Atari wanted a magazine to support it. So they decided to produce it in house. The first issue was Feb 1985, but Atari management quickly discovered that finished magazines did not just automatically roll off the press. So in the next 18 months, they only published 3 more issues. Ziff-Davis had just killed off Creative Computing so Betsy and I were available and entered into a contract with Atari to produce a bi-monthly magazine. Starting in September 1986, we did so for the next 3½ years and produced 21 issues on a regular schedule. We were fired in early 1990. So then to produce the magazine, Atari hired our totally disloyal editor who we had mentored for the past 3 years. In the next 34 months he managed to produce 11 issues before Atari more or less imploded. 100% of the proceeds of this sale go to Beyond the Walls (Charity) Make an offer! What do you have to lose? For shipping, I will send the magazine via USPS Media Mail at the lowest current rate to any address in the USA. I'm not like some eBay sellers who build big profits into shipping and screw the buyer. Who am I? My web identity is SwapMeetDave, but I'm actually David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, ex-editor of Military Vehicles, writer, incurable collector, and Christian. When you have time, take a look at my on-line carnival and flea market at SwapMeetDave.com, which is chock full of new clean jokes, patriotic pics, books, magazines, my bio, handyman humor, and other good stuff. I accept payments by check or PayPal. I ship the day I receive your payment or notification of payment from PayPal. Thank you!