I really thought I had already been here, but no.
Well, I'm near Lille, in France.
I got my first puter in 1987. So far for the golden 8 bit era. It was a CPC, soon replaced by a PC1512, then an AT clone, and so on.
IIRC I started collecting oldies around 1999. A mac 512ke, CPC 6128, then a...