Before I had a computer at home I played for some year with
ZX Spectrum 48k and a
Philips MSX VG-8020 from friends.
My first computer at home was a GoldStar 386SX with 2MB of RAM, 14"CRT, 80MB HDD, FDD 3.5" and I had also an EPSON LX-800 dot matrix printer.
(I may still have it stored somewhere)
Those were funny times.
My father when went way for a Sunday walk with my mother and didn't want his sons messing with the computer, used to lock it with the PC key, that we soon learned to bypass.
Found that drilling a hole in a 720kb FDD turned it into a 1.44Mb.
Muffle the sound of the dot matrix printer with a pillow when printing late school works finished at 2 am.
The only portable computer that I had until today was a
CASIO FX-880pIn it I made a BASIC program with the train schedules between the town I lived in, and the one were my girlfriend was studying at the time in the University. Input the way I wanted to travel and an intend hour to depart, and the program returned the nearest timetables. I didn't have internet at home by then, and cellphones on the streets were yet to be.