I got some ZX81 without any games, back in the early 80s. Well BASIC was my friend and 1kb of memory my dreadful master
Later I got some Amiga and bought Matt Dillons (the guy from DragonFlyBSD) DICE compiler as shareware. And there is even a story about Turbo Pascal, dBase etc. ;-) Today I'm using C and try to work with Lisp (out of curiosity) and Python.