Oh, shit! Your post brings me so many memories...
I started with a Commodore Vic 20 at 11, writing code published in magazines with my father with some funny results
From that Vic 20, we went up the Commodore chain, C64, C128, with several versions of the same computer.
Then we got a second hand 8088 (with a 20MB HDD) when a friend of my father changed it for a 286 when I was 14. 200.000 pesetas (1.200€) in 1986, a little fortune. When I was 16, I convinced my older brother to buy a shared 386 for another 200.000 pesetas (600€ each saved from our weekly allowances and birthday gifts for years and complemented with our first salaries), one weekend it was his computer, the next one it was mine. Weird system.
That 386 was a battleground for me and my brother for a couple of years, but I tested Windows 3 (didn't like it) and then W3.1 (I liked that one). Then I moved to a 486 in 1990 (I was 18) and divorced informatically from my brother
![Stick out tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
. He kept the 386. I kept the 486 case for years changing the insides while the ATX power supply resisted. I threw that case into the waste in 2017. It had a Pentium 4 inside.
Memory lane trip... I miss my father.