Mine was a full-on Commodore 64 kit that I got for Christmas when I was in 3rd grade. Everything was used and purchased from someone unloading their gear. To this day, I have no idea how my parents were able to afford it since disposable income wasn't really a thing for them until I'd left for college.
The kit itself include 60+ bits of software (mostly disks, a few cartridges) from games to productivity (geos!), monitor, printer, disk drive, light pen, speech synthesizer, fast-load cartridge, 300 baud modem, and tape drive.
Geos was my introduction to productivity and was used for all of my reports until we got a PC many years later, the modem connected me to Quantumlink (which eventually became AOL), and Gortek and the Microchips taught me basic programming.
Receiving that gift was one of those things that really shaped the rest of my life.
The kit itself include 60+ bits of software (mostly disks, a few cartridges) from games to productivity (geos!), monitor, printer, disk drive, light pen, speech synthesizer, fast-load cartridge, 300 baud modem, and tape drive.
Geos was my introduction to productivity and was used for all of my reports until we got a PC many years later, the modem connected me to Quantumlink (which eventually became AOL), and Gortek and the Microchips taught me basic programming.
Receiving that gift was one of those things that really shaped the rest of my life.