1980 and im a 14 yr old boy at school. My dad being a computer engineer takes a Tangerine CPU and links it to an old monitor from work.. big bloody thing with green text. Dad even programs in a Space Invaders copy where the letter X would come down and you had to shoot them.
Dad donated it to the school and it was the first computer in a school for the whole of South London. The school were over the moon.. this was just fantastic!
After that we were subjected to writing arrays in Basic and Machine Code and running them on this super powerful state of the art computer...LOL
 My life after that was pretty much written out for me... i was destined for a bright future in computers.. something to which i vehemently stuck 2 fingers up at with a big F*CK YOU thrown in for good measure...LOL