Ohio Challenger 2P and first encounters with COMPUTE! magazine (Ars Technica)

Thanks to Labor Day in the US, Ars Technica is rerunning some past articles of their “first encounter” series related to computer history (and personal impressions of the writers):

“CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CHALLENGER KIND —
First encounter: Ohio Challenger 2P (and its 4KB of RAM)
(Story first run in December 2012)

and

“ATARI 600XL, FTW —
First encounter: COMPUTE! magazine and its glorious, tedious type-in code
(Story first run in December 2012)

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