14. (1983) Saved for 6 months (I was paid for washing my dad's car, mowing the lawn, weeding, etc.) and bought a Commodore 64. Spent afternoons after school with a friend listening to Prince and Michael Jackson's Thriller while coding ROM BASIC with the c64 plugged into his television set. We both learnt the hard way to first SAVE to the tape drive before running any new code! I cannot remember how many hours of code we lost because of system crashes. LOL