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My first mac was the original snow ibook back in the summer of 2001.  It has a 5000mhz g3 processor with a combo drive.  Though it was my first mac I used dad's for years.  It was a powermac 7200 with a 90mhz processor.  Before that was the apple clasic and an even older one which i can't figre the name.  We still have both and even an apple stylewriter II dot matrix printer!

Trash 80. Still have it, the cartridges, and the 2 external floppy drives.

Comodore 64

Still had it up until about 3 weeks ago when I sold it. Had a clunker running early versions of Windows for a while, then several Windows boxes from Win95 on up to 2000. My iBook is my first Mac, and it is by far my favorite computer that I've ever owned.

My first was a Performa 430.  It came stock with a 120MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM which I later upgraded to a whopping 6 MB.    It didn't have a CD drive.  This baby was floppy-only. 

I got my first computer in 1988, for my ninth birthday.  It was what we then called an "IBM clone."  I don't remember all the specs, but I'd bet they were pretty pathetic.  It was a 386, but that's all I could tell you.  It didn't have Windows, it had some sort of GUI menu system which worked reasonably well, and was even "skinnable" in the sense that you could customize all the colors on the menus.  It also had 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives.  It may not have been much, but it could play a mean game of "Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?" 

The first PC I used alot was a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion something-something (I can't remember model number) anyway it was a piece of junk, it malfunctioned all the time and the mouse would almost always be stuck on the first bootup. Practically the only thing I liked about it was it's Windows 2000 O.S. (to this day, if I had to pick a Windows O.S. it would definitely be 2K).

After a while I got tired of the problems with the HP Pavilion and got an Axess PC with Windows Xp on it...it crapped out after about 6 months of constant use...now I have another Axess, same model as before except with Windows 98. But this one still has problems, and I'm tired of Microsoft anyway, so HOPEFULLY my next computer purchase will be a Mac

Technically, my first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2.  It ran at 0.89 MHz and had 16 KB of RAM... practically screaming performance.  About the only thing I was able to do with it (in my youth, that is) was play a game of baseball that came on a ROM cartridge.  The CoCo2 shipped with BASIC, though, but I was more interested in playing games on my Atari 2600 than coding BASIC.

In 1991, we got a much more useful computer and our first Mac, a Macintosh LC.  16 MHz 68020, 4 MB of RAM (upgraded from the stock 2 MB), 40 MB hard disk, 1.44 MB floppy drive, and System 7.  My sister and I used it for school work and the odd game.  I still remember how proud I was when I nabbed Carmen Sandiego for the first time.

1995 saw the replacement of our LC.  My dad and I shared the cost of a Performa 580CD.  It was quite a step up from the LC: larger monitor; faster processor; more RAM; and a whole heap more hard disk space.  This was the machine that really ignited my passion for computers, and is probably the reason I'm where I am today: studying Advertising in college.

That Performa lasted a good five years before I handed it down to my sister (she still uses it today for writing papers for college, and more recently for web surfing).  In September of 2000, I bought my Sawtooth G4/400, the first computer I paid for entirely myself.  It has certainly served me well over nearly three years of service, dutifully handling anything I can throw at it.  I've upgraded it pretty heavily, so a replacement is still far down the line... though those new G5s sure look purdy...

-- iHomer

My first computer was a Macintosh.  It could do it all... MacWrite, MacPaint (Colour?  Why would someone want colour on a computer?), Look for Easter Eggs... and games?  Let me tell ya... We had Lode Runner, Dark Castle, Text Games like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Starship Titanic is merely an imitation), an adventure text game WITH PICTURES (I believe it was called Transylvania or something like that) and of course, my all time nostalgia favourite - MacChallenger, the Space Shuttle Sim! (Usually you would end up crashing into the desert, annoying legions of gophers... anyone else ever see that game?)

Now that was a computer...

Macintosh SE back in 1988, my parents had an old PC-XT with an orange monochrome screen running DOS.  I was not allowed to touch it, so they got me and my sisters a Mac.  My parents bought their own after seeing what it could do in the hands of a ten year old.  We got a LC III in 93 and a Performa 5200 in 1996.  All still work.
In 1999 I got my first Mac of my own, a 7300/180. 384Mb, 9Gb X 2 Ultra SCSI.  Man that thing rocked back in the day, the drives are now in my G3 as a happy RAID.  In 2001 I got my Gossamer G3 and have since overclocked and upgraded the crap out of it, just has to hold me till I can afford a G5.
I also built an Athlon PC this spring, man what a nightmare by comparisson to my Macs.    BSOD !!!!!

My first computer was my Apple Macintosh Performa 637CD... 

Commodore 64 

C-64 was my first one. Then I moved to a commodore 128. The Amiga was the bomb. Had an Amiga 1000 and then a 500. Had a Mac SE for most of 89. My first PC was an 8088 based XT clone in 86 or 87. I quickly moved to a 286 in 88. For a short spell I was writing programs for 3 systems. The Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS. The Amiga was by far and away my favorite system to program on.

I miss the amiga.

-=Jax=-

TI-99/4A
Mac Classic
Mac Color Classic
Power Mac Performa 6400/200
Beige G3
G4 500MP
and a G5 on the Horizon...