We had one at home from early 1980's. It was bought by my dad's business, it came home weekends and he taught himself to program. He used to create job schedules and pricing estimates and I got to do the data entry!

Dad seriously considered changing career (from electrical engineering), but mom couldn't be convinced that it would pay! Dad stayed in electrical engineering and did alright. But it got me into computers - copying programs onto TRS-80 and then Apple II with CP/M and dbase.