Where did you start with Micro controllers?

1979 ......SYM-1 with 2k ram (and you think 32K is'nt enough ? You have'nt lived in the fast lane mate)
Sadly, 2k was'nt enough either, 4k was pushing the proverbial uphill, just. So I frankensteined an S-100 16k memory board to the SYM memory interface.
All this with my parents bugging me on why I was wasting my lowly wages on rubbish !