What was your first encounter with a computer?

[Ombligo]

Late 70s', I am pretty sure it was a TRS-80 that I used at school. I almost bought a Commodore VIC-20 at one point just to use as a word processor, but it was over a thousand dollars and I bought a used Underwood 5 typewriter for less than a hundred instead. It would be a decade later before we bought a home computer - a Packard-Bell 386SX with 2MB or Ram and a 20MB hard drive [I rebuilt it a few years later to a 486].

The paper gave us laptops so I didn't get my first Mac until 1997, and then I got two - a PowerBook 1400 and a G3/233. That was the last desktop I bought, been portables ever since.