[Anonymouse]

Let's see...initially, when the ZX-81 came out, I thought computers were just a fad. A year later they were anything but. Oops.
My very first was a VIC-20; I occasionally wrote in 6502 Assembler. It taught me valuable lessons on keyboards, the VIC's was excellent.
Then came the Sharp MZ-700 as part of a course I was doing. I got Hisoft's DEVPAC and discovered the joys of Z80 Assembler. I wrote a routine to bypass load & run, so I could back up games etc. I also wrote an alarm clock program in lieu of an actual alarm clock - very effective.
Then...the Atari 520STFM. Programming in GFA BASIC and 68000 Assembler, a pure joy. I still have a 4MB version.
In 1998 I bought a 486 computer, quite primitive. Later I built a better one. Then a better one still. I got a laptop running XP, 2 more running Vista, and now I have one running Windows 8.1 - yeah, yeah, but I like it.