For my 11th birthday my dad bought me a Sinclair ZX81 as computers were the future - for once the old, bald guy with big ears got it right.  We soon upgraded to a spectrum and I can still remember the feeling of satisfaction gained from writing lines and lines of code to get a 4 pixel square to bob about on my TV screen.

My first "real" PC came much later and I remember being overawed by the 4GB of storage space on it - how far I've come in the intervening 10 years, I now have 1 terabyte of storage space and still feel like I need more blushes  That one is still going strong though, it lurks in the brats bedroom so he can type his homework assignments up on it.

Oh and if we are talking old games NOTHING beats the Hobbit on the Spectrum.  Damn I even have a spectrum emulator and that game on the old PC and occasionally go for a nice bit of retro gameplay.  Sad isn;t it ;o)