....well, if you're gonna go all geeky, here you are.....
Sinclair spectrum, early eighties, and had a choice of RAM. I went for the higher model of 48K, thinking I'd never really need that much memory, but just in case. Played ping pong on it, and wrote a few lines of code, but it was enough to get me out of engineering and into IT as a career.
One of the key moments that made me want to go from blue collar to white collar, was a weekend spent welding up some old crock of a car I had back then. A call of nature was needed, and rather than using the grotty old outdoor lavs, I sneaked into the office loo instead, it being the weekend and no one about. What a revelation, no hard tracing paper for clean up operations, but soft, plush tissue paper. I could see straight away the grass was greener on the other side, so soon as I could I'd get me a white collar job.
Now then, what has all this got to do with building a Tomahawk? - nowt.............sorry SJ.
PS - happy St Pats to all