In 1985 I bought my son a Commodore 64 computer as a gift.  I set it up for him before he got home from school, and I was hooked.  I ended up trading it in for the Commodore 128 (from K-Mart, HA HA) and wrote a word processor in Basic for my kids to use for school.  It even printed and saved hard copies on a 5 1/4" disk!

Then I needed my own computer, so I purchased an IBM XT with a 20 MB hard drive!  Wow! $3,000 bucks with a printer!  From Computer Land!  Anyone remember them?  Or the XT???

I ended up owning my own software company, writing many custom business apps and marketing systems I wrote for banks and title insurance companies.  

I retired for about six years, and now I'm back to programming for another new business I have in Colorado.