memory lane strikes lol!
In my 20's my 1st 'computer' was an LED display calculator, you have to undestand i'm lousy at anything to do with maths. the (now defunct) Scientific & General') advertsed this on a special sale where i que'd up for the only time i have ever done this, for an unobtainably high cost unit - £20.
ZX81,
tbf Sinclair basic taught me an awful lot about logical thinking, typing in many pages of listings then busting it down to a ':' insted of an ';' was very time consumming but also a dicsipline inspired by the need to breal errant programs into sections in order to find erors and correct them.
Commador 64.
Many went the Sinclair 48/128 route, but i took a badge swerve, mainly because i was offered the C64 from a very dubious source. while not as user freindly for programming in Sinclair Basic, the music and graphics quality was simply brilliant by comparrison. Ghost Busters was the 1st game we had, followed 'summer olympics'.
C128
Really an improved C64 it sported a 5.25 floppy drive. I actually started my busines using 'superscript 128' which was a programmable word processor, tbh i have never found anything so inovative.
Amiga.
i loved that machine, why is it seemingly the best software appears as the machine is made obsolete?
Amstrad PC.via self bfor business use i bought an Amsltrad 'clam' luggable that 2 x 3.5 disk drives - was i a big boy lol! tbh It was extremely well built but soon outmoded. So i bought their 386sx smaller lugable with all of a 'massive' 40 megs hard drive (if only i knew now .....lol!).
progressed via self built PC's onto laptops, fialy so far to iPad 2.
i ponder if later generations will enjoy the pains of those eventual 'progress days'?