I was thirteen, she was thirteen, we used to walk home the same way from school and one day we got talking....
Oh wait...it was round at a mate's house. His parents had an A2000 (one where you had to insert a 1.2 kickstart disk) I remember it had a hard drive and a bridgeboard and after seeing him play around with it, seeing WB, the way it would 'mount' the HD :-P and just generally playing games I was in love. The following Christmas I got my mum to shell out the 399GBP necessary for my own A500....