The C64 and Amiga 500 certainly paved the way for things to come. There were others, the TI-99 I think, the Spectrum Sinclair, something by Atari. But the breadbox and the Spanish girlfriend really were important, were milestones. The Amiga dominated early PCs even up into almost the mid-90s.
I did not buy my first Pentium-class PC before I think very late 90s. Everything before Pentium 3 I think I skipped, stayed with the Amiga. For SPSS at university I used the PC of a friend, that statistics software never made it to Amiga.
Only coding languages I really learned well, were GFA Basic 3.0 late in the Amiga times, a structured Basic and quite good, and Pascal before that in my late school years, of which GFA Basic always reminded me. Oh, and of course Comodore Basic, unstructured.
I did a course in MSDOS late at university, but never needed it. When I came to the PC, Windows 98SE already was reality. SPSS 6 we ran on that friend's PC with W95. It was buggy and unstable as hell. SPSS I mean. It was the first Windows-compatible version of SPSS.
I hated it.
But then show me a student who does not hate statistics.
Beside that, a programmable Casio FX-3600P, a Chess Challenger Voice, Mephisto II, Mephisto Exclusive MMIV+HG440. Twenty years ago I bought many of the many objects of chess desires of my teen years that I could nto afford when I was young. So, several old and classic chess table computers I call my own now, some of them quite famous and very, sinfully expensive back in the days.