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)