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My grandma used VHS tapes to record programs from TV for us to watch later, like Sesame Street and Peanuts. -
Techie uncle gives us his old Commodore! I had no idea what to do with it, but it was really cool. -
Same uncle gives us an old Apple IIe with lots of floppy disk games. We played Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego the most. -
Grandad buys a Mac (with the help of said techie uncle, his son) and lets my sister and me play on it when we visit! There were only a couple of games (both Star Trek based), but that was OK! -
I got my first Walkman, it would play the radio and cassette tapes. Later on, I would put scotch tape over the record tab so I could record music from the radio "forbidden" by my parents: anything not classical/instrumental or Christian. -
The local library gets computers! (No graphics, though.) I signed up for my first email newsletter: DC Talk. -
My parents finally bought a regular Microsoft PC! It was used, and we still had dial-up internet through AOL, but we had graphics! We played a lot of Chip's Challenge and Minesweeper. And did some Mavis Beacon typing. -
First year of high school, they gave us lots of typewriting practice -- on an actual typewriter.