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Atari 800, amber screen and a cassette tape drive.  This was followed by a 8088 with 640K, 20MB HD, 3.5" (720K) floppy and 16-color graphics and dot-matrix printer.

My first computer was an Apple //e back in 1984.  It was at the beginning of my sophomore year in high school.  That was my first and last Apple until Feb. 2002 when I purchased an iBook.

An Apple II starting when I was two years old and had a muppet keyboard game setup and all the classic games we all know and either love or despise

My dad had a Tandy i think (i was very young). It had an orange and black screen.
I remember more the Mac 512k then the Mac Plus we had. My dad brought me games on floppies from the Montreal MUG (i was maybe 2 or 3 at that time)

...Prince of Persia...

Best game of all time

My first computer was an Apple //e back in 1984.  It was at the beginning of my sophomore year in high school.  That was my first and last Apple until Feb. 2002 when I purchased an iBook.

Weird.  I was going to say the same thing.  I was going to say an Apple II in about 1982 or so when I was 11 or 12, and then not another Apple until last October when I switched from PC via a PowerMac 867 DP.

My Dad is a teacher, and he brought the Apple computer home from school on the weekends so I could use it when I was in 6th grade.  I taught myself to program.  That experience really changed my life, since it introduced me to technology and logical thinking, which has really affected my career choice and livelihood.

Trash 80!!!!

Then an SE, then a Power Mac 6100, currently on a G4/350, and, very soon, a G5/Dual 2Ghz.

And Prince of Persia ownz. When the GBA version comes out, I'm getting it.

I beieve it was a mac classic but it was our family's. i was about 4 then, but i remember it. After that we got a IIvx and then a IIci and then an imac 400mhz DV and then i got my first computer, a powerbook g3 Wallstreet. Wonderful computer, the one I'm using now. After that, my brother got a 1Ghz. emac, the fastest comp we have in our house.

A Sinclair ZX81, 1k of Ram +16k rampack that wobbled and caused it to crash.  Then a 16k Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Then an Amiga 500 plus with 1mb of Ram.

When I was one and a half in 1984, my parents bought an Apple IIe with dual 5.25" floppy drives and a green screen.

I had it until I was 15 and didn't see a GUI until about 1996.

My first computer was an Apple //e back in 1984.  It was at the beginning of my sophomore year in high school.  That was my first and last Apple until Feb. 2002 when I purchased an iBook.

Weird.  I was going to say the same thing.  I was going to say an Apple II in about 1982 or so when I was 11 or 12, and then not another Apple until last October when I switched from PC via a PowerMac 867 DP.

My Dad is a teacher, and he brought the Apple computer home from school on the weekends so I could use it when I was in 6th grade.  I taught myself to program.  That experience really changed my life, since it introduced me to technology and logical thinking, which has really affected my career choice and livelihood.

What do you do for a living now?

I am a civil engineer specializing in water resources.  I build computer models of water, sewer, storm and drainage systems.  I love computer modeling, and the logical steps involved in writing programs are very similar to the logical steps in computer simulation models.  Often, it is necessary to program sequence of operations or logical controls into the models, but throughout my career, the process, thinking and logic that I learned while writing programs in basic and logo when I was 12-15 have carried through my career.

A mac lc 575(damn, my pc keyboard is acting up, I had to use the keypad to type 7). This was around 1994, and I was about 11 or 12. I was whining to my parents like crazy saying "I want a computer" over and over. I didn't care if it was a mac or pc. We ended up getting the 575 which I still own today. It's actually my only mac, but I'm awaiting arrival of a pm 8500. I just couldn't take the 33mhz 040 slowness anymore. But my new 604 150mhz is going to scream. I know, I live in the past, but I think people are spoiled with processing power nowadays. I once tried a g3 400mhz tower running os 10.1, and it was perfectly fast, I don't know what people are talking about when they say older G4's are too slow.