Same here, Texrat. I learned on the TRS-80. I got a 1200-baud accoustic coupling modem the following year, and thought CompuServe at $10/hour was the peak of civilization.

I never got my parents to buy me a Commodore 64 or Amiga. It was years later they got me a Tandy 1000SX instead of a IBM PC/AT.

TA-t3: by most of the 80's standards, the N800 would still be a supercomputer... it wasn't just the 70's.