Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing

Although my first Atari computer was the Atari 400, we were able to upgrade it to an Atari 800XL by 1985. The 800XL was a tremendous improvement with its much improved keyboard and 64K of RAM. Eventually we also got a 1050 disk drive for it, which made programming much easier.

Writing programs and saving them on cassette was an exercise in patience that …