Back in 1987, my parents bought me my first computer. It was Commodore 116. Rubber keyboard, only 16 kilobytes of RAM. That sounds funny these days but it was great technology then. Commodore 116 had new sound and video chipset offering a palette of 128 colors. Programming language was BASIC 3.5 and it had commands for sound and bitmapped graphics (320×200 pixels), as well as simple program tracing or debugging. Here is how it looks like:
It had no CD rom, nider floppy drive. It used tape drive. Loading a large program at normal speed could take up to half an hour sometimes.
Tape drive had counter, so when you start cassette you had to reset counter and look at it to see when and where program data is. Hard to explain, I know. 
And making a program in BASIC was interesting, too. For the end, here is an example how that programs looked like:
10 PRINT "some text"
20 GOSUB 100
30 PRINT "Back To text"
40 GOSUB 100
50 PRINT "Once again text"
60 END
100 PRINT "This is the Subroutine"
110 RETURN