When I first started out, we had so called Nascom 2 Computers at School which were handwired by the technical students, I got hooked and got my mom to buy me my first computer, a MSX SpectraVideo 728 (Z80 based), almost everyone else were buying Acorns or C64's
Eventually traded up to an Amiga (500 then 3000) and went on to code on Sparc in its various forms
Those were fun days