You'll like this. My first memory of my A1200 was "it doesn't work!!". I hadn't had a computer before, knew I was supposed to see the animated disk on startup, but nothing appeared on any of the 99 TV channels I went through. It turns out it would display a blank screen for 30 seconds before displaying the animated disk, so I'd turn it on and would pass channel 21 before the screen appeared. 2 days later I looked up the answer in CU Amiga, and tried again to success. It was 7pm on a Sunday night and I loaded up Monkey Island 2 which I'd bought for £38 with some money from my Grandad, and I spent the next 2 hours before bed playing it.

My first memory of my first PC was "it doesn't work!!". It was a 450MHz PIII which I'd bought new for £500 out of MicroMart in 1999, made by some Greek lady in a London shopping centre. I tried installing Win98 but it would crash partway through the install. I had very little knowledge of PCs, but eventually tracked it down to the fact that the UTTER MUPPETS had set the processor speed in the BIOS to 500MHz, and the thing couldn't cope. I set it back to normal, and the thing worked. Well, it would still crash every half hour, but that was Windows.