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And then, as far as touching a "real" computer goes, it was a Compucorp computer with CP/M OS (I think) at my uncle's job. And its Star Trek game!

I got my Electron at Christmas in 1984. I would have been 8. My dad plugged in into a portable TV (black and white initially) for me and connected it to the tape recorder, but other than that left me to my own devices and I had to learn to use it on my own.

*strictly* speaking it doesn't date me quite as well as it dates some people, because I got my Elk in (I think) 1988, aged 5, so quite a bit after its heyday.

My absolute earliest memories of any computer at all :) I was about 7 years old I guess. Taught myself BASIC on that. I wish I could remember more about it, I struggle to even remember what games we had. But I do 100% remember typing in BASIC code from the manual as I learnt.

My poor parents were forced to read words they had never read before either.