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Sinclair MK-14 by any chance? My first personal choice of the very early days, although not the first computer I ever used.


My first one was a Motorola 6800 evaluation card with a lot of stuff wired on. My first video display was two sets of resistors soldered as a R/2R ladders on the 2 8-bit parallel ports, driving the X and Y axis of an oscilloscope...
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That would be some sort of mainframe where you used punched cards over a phone link, when I was about 8.

Ahh, yes, my first programming language was Fortran (on punched cards), hence the brain damage...