@stilvoid @fluidlogic Same, I lusted after Amigas, Macintoshes, etc that I basically didn't touch, and a big part of the hobby for me was exploring those once they became obtainable (though they're rapidly becoming unobtainable again)
Re: the poll question: we had a C64 *fairly* early (84-ish?) but then the 80s hit my family hard and we upgraded from a C64 to a 386 just before the Pentium released, and skipped 16 bit home computing altogether.