We started out with a Kaypro K10, that’s a 10mb hard drive, in 1984 as a business machine. It ran CPM, an early Microsoft product I think, Wordstar, our database on FoxPlus and SuperCalc spreadsheet that I still prefer to Excel.
The magic thing was that it was portable. The keyboard fastened over the front of the metal case covering the small, green, screen and the floppy disk drive. That was the large, really floppy, discs.
We upgraded to a 286 PC a little later and the Kaypro was used for the accounts using the very first Sage software. That was at home and my sons played space invaders on it.
Some years and a few more upgraded computers later, I was doing my party trick in the office, showing someone what BT speak for “go forth and multiply” looked like if you ask for broadband at my home, and it basically asked when would I like it! That rattled a few cages down the pub, as many had been asking for it, but no one had it, and they were a mile closer to the exchange.