I enjoyed your old post where you mention your first personal computer.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/03/20/old-article-20-years-of-computing/
I touched my first keyboard in a class using a Data General with a few terminals hooked up in 1983. I got my first PC, also a Commodore 64, probably the same year as you (at age 41 instead of 8). Shortly after that I was not in a position to have my own PC, but did use them. In 1996 I got a Compaq Presario and the next year installed Red Hat on it using floppies that came in a box with a thick manual. I was enthralled.