My First Encounter
The Apple II Europlus was the first computer I ever saw (at a school friend's house). And it didn't look anything like the brightly flashing cabinets from Space: 1999...
I didn't encounter an Apple II again until my final years of high school, when a handful of //e models were acquired, on which we were trained in Pascal. But even after all these years, my Applesoft BASIC skills were still sufficient to write a menu program for a small selection of games!