Yeah like @Sjef I am 42 & find time flies with each year that passes.
I remember as a kid how summer holidays seemed to last forever. Now summer passes like a wink of an eye.
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Imsai 8080 kit. saved up for a year and spent six months building it.
Its huge power supply capacitor exploded on the first power up- to the delight of all my friends…
The Smoke and Magic of a backwards diode.
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Totally agreed, I’m 40 and I loved high resolution 3D graphics, I work with 3D design and sometimes I use Pimax to check some details in it, Hopefully 8K will bring a new level of exploration 
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Yes and Christmas and birthdays took forever to come around.
Be careful with lines like “summer holidays seemed to last forever”. You may need to pay Brian Adams royalties (almost Summer of 69). 
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My first gaming experience was the Atari 2600 my uncle gave, which only got used when the weather was bad so we couldn’t go out to play. I played Doom 2 on my uncle’s PC too. First PC we had in our home was a 286 monochrome laptop from Compaq I think.
My own first PC was an AMD Duron 700 with 128 SDRAM and a Nvidia TNT m64 GFX card. Half-Life rocked!
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Microsoft MS DOS, DR DOS etc. Nice and simple startup scripts to get that extra 1k of memory to make Quake, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein, Tanks etc work lol. I was a Clipper DB programmer back then on a Novell network.
I remember connecting to a BBS (so addictive, made you feel like a hacker) and downloading a huge 200k audio sample exe that was a man singing “THERE’S A MUSHROOM, IN YOUR GARDEN” or something like that. I installed it as a looping run on the company accountants autoexec.bat file on her Amstrad PC 1512/1640 (they had very loud speakers in them that mostly just beeped). She was always late and it slightly annoyed everybody else that got to work for 9am. She strolls in at 9:20, powers up and then it starts blasting out this audio sample of somebody singing inside her PC (unheard of back then). The office of 25 people were in hysterics. She was rather flustered and pink by the time I “fixed” it.
OMG! found it (not mine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42iN3HMB68
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Going a ways back here…
1st: Sinclair Spectrum 48k
2nd: Sinclair Spectrum 48k+
3rd: Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2
4th: Commodore Amiga A500+
5th: Commodore Amiga A600
7th: Commodore Amiga A1200 (fully upgraded, still have this one!)
8th - xth: Loads of home-built PCs. Current count is 9 in the house.
I also had a smattering of consoles over the years, an Atari 2800, an original Playstation and a Crystal XBox (still have it and use it occasionally).
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Pretty cool indeed. We had lots of BBSes un the area
The Guild BBS on a C=64 with 1200 modem
Aquilonia BBS on amiga 4 ringdown 14.4 modem
Most though ran Telegard based bbs programs most common was Renegade though also had Vision-X.
I was a remote sysop on 2 of my friends boards and heavily hexedited the OVR file to add a ton of graphics. I figured out how to create animated prompts without tge use of ansi animation.
Mci codes were alot of fun
%un is having a party lol
We also had a well configured Pcboard bbs.
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I’m ignoring Atari consoles etc.
Lived in Zimbabwe so I was late to the game with an imported Speccy 48k.
Got a CP/M Amstrad 6128 on return to the UK.
Then a PPC640 luggable 16MHz Z80 DOS.
The rest is self built. 286/386/486 etc.
Like a number of members above, I’m mid 40s
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Apart from Binatone and Atari console,Playstation 1,X-Box (original),Wii (may it rest in firmware bricked heaven),PS4 <------------And commence tampering.
Speccy 48k (Played Attic Attack till my fingers bled)
Speccy 128k (No more squishy keys,it’s like a real computer)!
Atari ST (I think at this juncture,my mind finally collapsed after trying to figure out what the bloody hell was going on in Captain Blood,but the music mix by J M Jarre is to die for. )
Amiga500 (Yarr,there goes another ping on X-Copy load another floppy in the very expensive external hard drive me mateys) 
Wild Copper Demo - Amiga 500 v1.2 Kickstart - YouTube (Wild Copper,I love you)
Amiga 1200 (As above but with a stonking 8MB of ram,Wow !!!)
Amiga 4000 (Still have that bad boy in my loft somewhere)
Amiga CD32(Yes I was the idiot who brought one,and to top of my Amiga fanboi
phase I had a hard drive doodad attached to it as well) 
After my Amiga addiction wore off my PC days began and also the decline in my bank account began in earnest !
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Have hope brother blessed be the church of Roberts,he shall not bow down to the corporate suits,by his divine hand he will with great providence and fortitude shall forge the BDSSE ever,so it is written in the book of CIG…
Amen in the name of Roberts
(Parson Jared Huckerby Church of Roberts circa…2030’ish) 
Yeah it was too bad Comodore screwed the Amiga. The Amiga was very advanced 4 the time; probably too advanced.
GoldenAxe was so much better on the Amiga then the PC. Though the PC version could be played on a single 3.5" disk… Where as i recall the Amiga version on the 500 was 3? Disks (swap).
Also had a CD32 and CDTV! Initially from the promises of games like Planetside…
So you’re not alone in being an idiot… I mean futurist… ahem 
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My first computer was a second-hand TRS 80 Model I with a whopping 4K of RAM, no sound and 1 bit color (on or off). I got that back in the very early 80’s and I used it for a couple of years until I was given a hand-me-down Atari 800 and I used that for a few more years.
I agree though that it’s more important to get a good product than an “on time” product. I’m disappointed when I hear about the delays, but I’d be even more disappointed if I got a shoddy piece of equipment for my money.
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ZX Spectrum 48k + cassette player year about ±1992
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1992 or maybe 1982? I had use it in 1982-83 and bought a Spectrum + in 1984.
1992 I was 10y.o. kid when my father bring this machine home, everyone else picking up NES (dendy clone) at that time, enjoying instant cartridge plug&play system, i was jealous of time saving and also games quality, but there was no choice for me at all.
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The Vic 20 i had used Cartridges & a tape drive.
Me too vic20 as 1st computer and then commodore64
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