Ahhhhhhhhhh some comments make me feel very old...
My family started with a ZX81 - with the highly reliable 64k(?) memory pack (ended up mounting on a piece of plywood with the memory pack wedged in to stop the crashing)
Then became very jealous of those with the splendid vic20, but my
Dad then decided a BBC model B was the future. Oh the joy, and the hours spent playing defender, scramble and (possibly) the still unsurpassed ELITE!
Following that I lost interest (probably typing in programs from magazines that never worked), until I went to uni where a PC to type up assignments etc was very useful. Parents kindly bought an Amstrad PPC640 (as pictured in a previous post) for me. No hard drive - boot to DOS from floppy (3.5 inch and 2 of them!!), what a machine. After uni again lost interest.
Years later I bought a packaged machine from Tiny - can't remember the specs but it had had a whopping 4.3Gb hardrive - the rest is unfortunately is history, have become a geek, building systems for myself and friends....and my wife hates me.