@fluidlogic I got an Atari 800 with 48K RAM and 410 tape deck, plus the Star Raiders and Atari BASIC program cartridges for Christmas 1981 or 1982, can't remember, but I was 13 or 14 years old.
My next computer was an Apple Macintosh IIsi around 1992 or 1993?
I went to Carnegie-Mellon in 1986, so I didn't need my own computer during those years.