What was your first computer?

[Manga Shoggoth]

The only likely computer that comes to mind there is a BBC Micro, which was Acorn's second computer (after the Atom) and which was part of a BBC initiative to get computers into school? Acorn's successor computers to the BBC were the Archimedes series, which first came out in 1987 but had model numbers like 300 and 400.

What you had varied depending on the school and resources it had (and when they started on it). The BBC Micro was indeed pushed for schools when it came out (as a result of the aforesaid campaign), but my old school had an Apple ][ running for the Computer classes. Before that we had a dial-up link to a Ford mainframe of some form using an old TTY terminal.

After I left my old Maths teacher upgraded everything, but I forget what he ended up using - it might even have been IBM PCs by that point.