I got my first computer in the early ‘90s, I think. It’s slightly possible it was in ‘88 or ‘89, but I’m sticking with my answer of no computer in the ‘80s.
It was… a computer. It might have been an IBM or maybe an IBM knockoff. Or not. I have no idea what the specs were. That was a long time ago, people!
My first video game system (and the only one in my childhood home) was an early version of the Magnavox Odyssey, like this one. Two players had to sit right next to each other to play!
I was one of the first law students in my class to have a computer. It was an Apple II c. I got it in 1984 and used it until around 1989.
I used my paper route money and bought myself a Franklin Ace 1000 in the early 80s. I didn’t own another one until 1996 or so.
You know, I answered that I didn’t have a personal computer in the 80s, and then I realized I had some kind of 386 in grad school, in the later 80s… that, and a dot matrix printer for printing out my assignments.
Would that have been a Compaq? I can’t even remember. I just know that when I went to work for my first company in 1989, a lot of them thought I was some kind of IT genius because I knew how to use a desktop. They rewarded me for that by making me train a lot of people. 
I had a UK101 in the late 1970s but it wasn’t in the list.
My dad got an Acorn Atom which i then inherited in 1983, but soon upgraded to a BBC model B
which was the Atom’s successor. Loved it !
I did buy an old IBM XT from my employer for a nominal fee of £1 iirc but that
was in the 90s i think.
That was fun.
I had a portable Compaq. Those things were tough.
When I was an advisor for our Explorer Post (computer oriented), we used to take a bunch of Compaqs to our local Boy Scout Camporee each year to do the event scoring.
When I started law school the fall of 1989, the university bookstore sold Macs with the then-cutting-edge 386 chips at a discount to incoming students. My then-girlfriend and I got one and it worked pretty well. We started out with a dot-matrix printer, too, but got an HP laser printer not too much later IIRC.
One of only 2 Atari ST users I see.
I’ve never owned a dedicated gaming console-in the 80’s, pretty much all ports of my fave arcade games were seriously lacking in one or more ways. I might get a Playstation, but pretty much only to drive Gran Turismo 7 with.
Bedtime wear comes in during my edit window-always underwear, tho during the colder nights I get things all toasty with my electric blanket, which alas wasn’t an option.
You must be misremembering. Macs of that era used Motorola 68000-series chips, and by 1989 the Intel 386 (which was used in IBM PC compatibles) had already been on the market for four years. Intel’s cutting-edge chip in 1989 was the 486.
It’s not so much adding another blanket or a heavier comforter to the bed, though I did pick those among others, as that in the summer I’m not using the comforter at all and if the weather’s hot also not the blanket. In cold weather I’ve got one of each on top of the flannel sheets and probably under several cats. There are on average more cats on the bed in cold weather, so I added that for an “other”; though sometimes they’re all there even if it’s warm.
I’ve had an email address of one sort or another since the mid 70’s (through one of the first universities on ARPANET). I remember that email took about the same time to get through as surface mail (2-3 days).
I got my first PC at work in about 1984, but when I compared what it could do to the VAX Clusters I was accessing, I decided to wait to buy something for home until whatever I bought had significant capabilities I wanted at home.
I bought my first home PC in the late 90’s
Re the royalty poll
I could quit my job
I wouldn’t have to worry about healthcare.
Other people could clean and cook for me
As long as I could keep my cats and my favorite tchotchkes, and my tablet, I’m good.
And I would be living in my favorite country.
Where do I sign up?
Re cold weather bed routine:
Warm weather: skip step 1.
I use a heavy wool comforter, then on colder nites i nuke one of those heat pads and put it down with my toes.
I like the temp to be 68 or 69 F.
We have a light quilt we use in the summer, and a fluffy down comforter for the winter.
Also, my house is heated in the winter, and not in the summer. 
I enjoy sleeping during cold weather. Our home has a furnace but no central air conditioning. We add a blanket, and that’s about it.
We have an electric mattress pad with extra heating elements at the feet. My cold weather nighttime procedure is much like sqeegee’s.
Ah, warm toes all night long.
Whereas i often stick a foot out from under the covers if I’m a little too warm. Yes, even in the winter.
I bought my first PC in the early 90’s, maybe 93 or 94, and it was a 486 and ran on DOS as I recall. More than adequate for my purposes at the time.
Ah, you may be right. Thanks.