Our family's first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10 in the early 80's. My parents knew nothing about computers (and still don't), but my mom had apparently heard on

Our family's first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10 in the early 80's. My parents knew nothing about computers (and still don't), but my mom had apparently heard once that computers need to be expandable, so that's what she told the sales person at Radio Shack. The MC-10 has a slot that lets you expand it from 4k to 20k of RAM, so it met the requirement. That was the family computer, but only me and my older brother actually used it, after that me and my older brother got computers of our own. My older brother got an Atari 800XL. I started off with an Aquarius from Matel, then a VIC-20, then Commodore 64. My younger brother went with Nintendo, and never really had a personal computer until I gave him my old Packard Bell in the mid 90's after he left college.