Where did you start with Micro controllers?

I must admit a small gasp of nostalgia there when I saw the MC6800 beast there. Before I had my 6502 addiction, it was the 6800 on a development board that I first played with. A few months later I got my first PDP BASIC program running on the beastie donated to the school system as part of DEC's outreach programs in the late 70's. Strangely enough, my wife is now friends with the daughter of someone who was part of that outreach program. Amazingly small world sometimes.

That PDP is why I made it out of that little tiny Wisconsin farm town... And realized the dream of working for DEC before they got gutted. That 6800 trainer (does KIM1 sound right?) was my first.

The first one is always free, as any junkie will tell you...