And it's so amazing that both C64 and Amigas are still kept alive by new and old skoolers.
The first time I saw a Macintosh for real, it was when I got into the university, where there was a tiny department with a couple of LC models, and our department had a few additional ones. However they also had enough money to buy a couple of NeXT Cubes.
Outside the university there was no one with them, and until the raise from the ashes, the only place you could get them was at one single store in Lisbon that served the whole country.
From my memory of getting a Vic 20 then a ZX Spectrum +3 there was a pretty even split of Commodore and Spectrum machines among my friends. There were LOTS of other machines too, Atari, Oric, Amstrad, Tandy (Radio Shack) in the early days.
Although I had a mouse and a drawing program for the Spectrum the computers for creatives in the UK didn't really take off until the Amiga and Atari ST with their awesome sound and graphics packages.
C64 was kind of a national computer for the 80s but there were others as well and Macs were used in the DTP and graphics circles a lot and sometimes one could find them in schools as well but as I said, they were quite high end and adult/work oriented compared to the inexpensive home computers like Commodores, Ataris and sometimes even PCs.
Funnily in Finland there were home computer magazines which basically ignored the existence of Macs for most of the time except there was one, seprate Mac magazine. Probably because the advertising segment was targeted to DTP professionals etc.
I say this as a massive Amiga fan, so I'm not shitting on the platform, just recognizing its shortfalls.