When my dad brought home the old Texas Instruments TI-99 I thought it was some other-world alien control panel. My 1st video game apparatus... *sniff*
Oh, and Might and Magic on the Apple IIe.
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I started out on a commodore 128 personally. Of course I was only 8 at the time, so anything earlier than that would have been too early for me. Wrote my first game by the age of 9, following Compute! magazine guidelines. Next one was a 386, 33 mhz computer running windows 3.0! From there, went to a 486 66, then a pentium 133. The first computer I personally owned was thinkpad 166 machine. Then I went to a toshiba 233 mhz. Then I ended up with the Thinkpad 770z laptop, which still runs my e-mail and IRC chat to this day. It's a blazeing fast P-II 366! I also have had my own stream of PC's. 2 large boxes is my limit, and one is usually a hand-me-down machine from the other
My current crop of computers include that laptop, and 2 desktops. The secondary machine is now a P IV socket 478 2.8ghz machine, and the primary, which still is not working due to an excessivly annoying motherboard RMA with asus is a socket 775 3.4 ghz.
My current crop of computers include that laptop, and 2 desktops. The secondary machine is now a P IV socket 478 2.8ghz machine, and the primary, which still is not working due to an excessivly annoying motherboard RMA with asus is a socket 775 3.4 ghz.
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My sister had a VIC-20 (eventually got a second, for nostalgic purposes?) and my dad had an IBM 8088 PC (dual 5.25", 256K RAM, no HDD, green monochrome screen) for the longest time. The Apple IIe was so great because it had color 
After those, my sister became a hardline Mac user and got her Mac LCii which I was obsessed with
that thing had the best graphics! I played Pirates! non-stop (until she kicked me out of her room).
After that my dad got a PS/2 286 as part of his severance package. With 40MB HDD and 9MB RAM (wtf?) it was intense. I learned PCs on that one - after taking it apart one day to see what the insides looked like, my dad walked into the room with me sitting in a circle of drives, cards and other assorted parts. That day I figured out how to reassemble a PC in 30 seconds flat.
After those, my sister became a hardline Mac user and got her Mac LCii which I was obsessed with
that thing had the best graphics! I played Pirates! non-stop (until she kicked me out of her room). After that my dad got a PS/2 286 as part of his severance package. With 40MB HDD and 9MB RAM (wtf?) it was intense. I learned PCs on that one - after taking it apart one day to see what the insides looked like, my dad walked into the room with me sitting in a circle of drives, cards and other assorted parts. That day I figured out how to reassemble a PC in 30 seconds flat.
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After that my dad got a PS/2 286 as part of his severance package. With 40MB HDD and 9MB RAM (wtf?) it was intense. I learned PCs on that one - after taking it apart one day to see what the insides looked like, my dad walked into the room with me sitting in a circle of drives, cards and other assorted parts. That day I figured out how to reassemble a PC in 30 seconds flat.
Bet you learned a few new words too
I got a reaction like that from my wife when she came home and saw our shiney new PacBell Pent 200 pro all over the kitchen table .We laugh about it now but back then she wanted to kill me
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