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celticgeek:
Um, well, yeah:

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KharBevNor:
Even though I'm relatively young, my father believed that it was important that my interest in computers was fed with something that would give me a slightly more fundamental understanding of how computers worked. Thus my first computer was this:



And a stack of books on BBC BASIC. I was actually quite in to computer programming for a while as a kid, and programmed a few basic text games and such, but I never made the leap to OOP, or anything more advanced than GW-BASIC actually, so I BASICally don't know jack now (herp derp). It was pretty fun to be able to write programs that caused the ancient computers in my schools IT department to display fake error messages, causing me to gain endless amusement from the fact that our 'IT teachers' didn't think to, say, press Ctrl+break (this was in the mid 90's, before every school grew a server room staffed with depressed 20-somethings with degrees in computer science who'd assumed they would be dotcom millionaires by now). 

peterh:
Ah, the Beeb Machine! I remember that one fondly, although I never used it. Wasn't that actually the Acorn Atom?

bhtooefr:
I'm 22, but I'm floating in a sea of retrocomputers, and grew up with 1 MHz and 128k RAM, so close enough, right?

Anyway, while I've never used an 8-bit Acorn (wrong continent for that - they did sell them here, but compared to the Apple //e (which had more RAM, more software - UK software didn't run properly on the US BBC B - and the BBC name meant little in the US) at the same price point, and the C64 (which had more RAM, more software, and better graphics and sound) at a significantly lower price point, it was a total flop,) the BBC Micro wasn't the Atom. The Atom was the predecessor, and the Beeb was the Proton.

(I do have a 32-bit Acorn, though - an Acorn RiscPC, with a 233 MHz StrongARM, with everything installed in an A7000 case (which means an autoranging power supply - plug it into US power, and it just works.) Got it from a guy who used to live in the UK, and did a lot of RISC OS development.)

bicostp:
I guess I'll throw my hat in the ring for Resident Apple Old Fart.

Started out with an SE, then an SE/30, and eventually we went through a long succession of 68k and PPC Macs as my dad's work lent them or threw them away. I've still got the same old SE/30 we've always had, along with a grab-bag assortment of survivors and newer acquisitions, with boxes of parts, cables, accessories, peripherals, and floppies to go with them. There's a hard drive kicking around that has an archive of all our old stuff going back at least 20 years (I can't even find some of the old software online), a LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge (which got the SE in the screenshot thread on the net), an original Newton Messagepad (in a Newton-branded leather case), and a "Powerbook XXXX" seed unit hanging around as well. I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of magazines and books, a HyperCard box, a few manuals, and a box of Apple branded color inkjet overhead transparencies kicking around too.

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