Apple Mac LC, retired from my father's office. 20MB HDD and 256 color monitor. The PRAM battery ended up dying, so afterwards it would always boot up in grayscale and you would have to manually change it to color. Prince of Persia was awesome, though I could never get to the end.

I honestly don't know what kind of computer it was. It was something my dad brought home from work when they were going to throw it out, so it was old even when I had it in the early 90s. It ran DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, and a lovely orange monochrome monitor. I used it to write my little stories and play crappy console games. Good times.

IBM 386DX with a 'turbo' button.

I used Apple II's in school and older "IBM" PC's but my family never got one. I had to buy one myself once I moved out.

I remember learning to write BASIC and Logo programs in grade school. I even went to 'computer camp' during summer school, but that was more 'play Oregon Trail/ Carmen San Diego and print out basic ass ascii art' than learning.

Weirdly, after 6th grade the whole 'computer literacy' thing at our school quietly disappeared. In 8th grade I learned to type, on an actual typewriter. Maybe they thought the whole 'computer' thing was a fad, or they could have just been cheapskates. Idk.

I feel less old, thank you all :)

Some Acer laptop I got handed down, 300 MHz Celeron with 64 MB / 4 GB. Looking back, I can blame a lot of how I ended up on that PoS. I have fond memories of playing around with Win 9x and DOS on that thing, clumsily trying to keep it from breaking apart and my parents from taking it away.

The first computer I actually fully bought for myself was a shitty MSI "gaming" laptop with a first-gen i5. That proves that I learned nothing. It would overheat like crazy, the hinges broke after 2 years, had a custom Ati-Intel dual GPU setup that would not play nice with Linux... ah, memories...

Next one after that was a used Elitebook 2540, because I was done with shitty hinges.

I still have my first PC. It's not the first one our family had, that was an old Macintosh and a DOS after that. But this is the first one I bought and built. It still runs, on windows XP. It's a nice time capsule. It still has Medal of Honor Allied Assault on it.

486 DX 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM.

Intel pentium 75mhz

Mine is a bit embarrassing. The first computer that was actually mine was an ACER desktop computer that had Windows Vista on it. The memes about Vista aren't exaggerating. It was quite possible the most unstable OS I've ever used. The concentration of blue screens is unmatched to this day and it was a horrible RAM hog

No idea, but it was beige and ran Windows 97.

Some form of Gateway PC that was still running Windows 95 until my grandpa had me update it to 98. My other grandparents then got an early Apple iBook which was pretty awesome at the time as well.

Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. I do not know which specific configuration (I was too young). I do remember the games I had though: Tyrian 2000, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, C&C, HoM3, I-war, Flight Simulator 95, LBA 2 and Jersey Devil. Half of them were copies I got from a neighbour that owned a cd-r.

Was a Dell running windows xp 4gb of ram, 160gb hard drive, and a Celeron with an orange light

First one I used? Either a ][e or ][gs at school. First one our household owned? A 286 (not any particular brand). First one that was "mine"? A mac LC2. First one i paid for with my own money? Uhhh I just remember it was a Dell, probably a pentium 4?

Commodore 128, won by my parents at a contest, back in the day, guessing the price of a pallet of 'Zwarte Kat' coffee.

Fuck, I'm showing my age here but it was a Windows CE with a blocky CRT monitor

Probably that one Asus Laptop i remember putting Windows 10 on it but decided to downgrade to 7 cause it was faster

A custom pc, with a Sempron 3000+, 512mb of ram, no dedicated gpu and with Windows XP

1977, original Apple II with 8k, integer basic, and "the big red book".

Surprised I haven't seen any mention of the Commodore PET.

I first had an old (forgot which year) Dell Latitude:

I saw the US version. I knew I wanted to mess with it. Asked my parents for a computer for years. Finally got one in 1990. Love my super old IBM XT

Had a random desktop from a mall computer shop that ran Windows ME!

Before that we had some 486 machines with 40MB HDD and Windows 3.5 and IBM DOS...

My first computer that was mine though was a Dell D610 I believe. Lasted 8 years.

Macintosh 128k, followed by an Apple ]|[

My brothers had an Amiga 500 that I was glued to. But I have vauge memories playing games on the Spectrum ZX

Laser 50 Personal Computer

We were poor, but my mom got me one of these. Ran into the mem limit multiple times, but those were good days banging on that. This thing and C64 magazine.

Apple IIs were in my school but my first computer at home was a 486 sx 33mhz from Midwest Micro

Is that what the E stood for? 🤔

My parents had an Apple IIe before I was born and it was the first thing I ever used growing up.

My first computer, that was mine and mine alone was just some cheap eMachines computer back before they got bought by Gateway.

I also bought the memory upgrade to 16k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

Mac Classic