My first computer a Z81
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Oh, first computers… Mine was a plywood box. In it, one would find a S-100 card cage populated with a Z-80 CPU board, 64MKb memory board, disk controller, and a 256k RAM drive (blazing fast!!). Alongside the card cage were two 8" floppy disk drives and a 30-pound power supply.
This, a Wyse terminal, and a 300baud modem got me through my masters degree. I finally got rid of it last year, reclaiming basement space. Sorry, no pictures, didn’t have photography back then… 
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A friend of mine had the white ZX80 you built from a kit.
She did build it.
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I buy him to the 6 years, and was born in the 81 so it already was used…
My university days were filled with waiting until 3 am to get access to keypunch machines. Good times.
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64Mb? On a Z80?
whups, 64K.
And that was a lot, back then…
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This was my first ever computer:
Кворум (компьютер) — Википедия (sorry there is no link in English)
I was probably 9 years old but I have learned basics of programming on Basic on that machine.
Then it was a ZX 80 Spectrum. I think mine actually had either 128K or 256K RAM. Spectrum was a gaming console 
Remember this?
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Oh yes, I remember the days of Robocop of the ZX Spectrum all too well!
I remember how pleased I was with myself when I eventually complete it.
Jet Set Willy, however, was another story… I still get nightmares about the Jet Set Willy in game “ear worm” as I see Willy plummeting to his death due to a badly planned jump! 
The youth of today, don’t know they’ve been born. At least they never had to put up with loading a game from audio cassette for 5+ minutes, only for it to fail with the dreaded R Tape loading error, 0:1
my retrogame 
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