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Ohio Scientific Kit that my Dad put together for us.  The DOS was personally written by Bill Gates himself.

If I remember my history correctly, Bill Gates didn't really write DOS, but actually "borrowed" most of the code from CP/M.  I think all he actually wrote himself were some of the drivers for  floppy drives, etc.

He's really good at "borrowing," isn't he?

My First was the Atari 400 (flat keyboard) with cassette
First programming besides basic was "Logo" with a turtle to draw out instructions.


Then C=64  - had the "Fast Load" cartridge dual 5.25 disc drives - 300 baud modem.  My parents wanted to get the sorry ass VIC 20...

C=128 ... spilled coke in keyboard....  bad idea!

Then my beloved Macintosh Classic II running system 7.0 - 8 megs ram 80 meg drive... 


Ike

Commodore 64 was my first computer.  I wore that thing out.

Then my folks got a Packerd Bell that ran DOS and Windows 3.1.  After that, a Gateway tower (humongous tower) with a 66mhz Pentium. 

I moved out and my first computer I purchased myself was a Gateway PII-266mhz.  Had that until a few months ago when I got my 800mhz G4 iMac, 15" screen.

Didn't anyone have an ADAM? One of my friends had an ADAM and all us C64 guys laughed at him....   dual tape decks! HA!

My first computer was a Packard Bell 486SX with 2 MB of RAM and an 85 MB hard drive.  That 25 MHz proccessor was smokin'.  I remember my days of playing in DOS, though the thing had Windows 3.1 on it.  For some reason I thought the DOS Shell or just the command line were better.  I also remember trying to install AOL on it.  I swear it took at least an hour to install from the Floppy Disk.  Then around 1996 or so we bought a Performa 6300CD from a friend.  That's when I fell in love with the Mac, OS 8.1 to be exact.  Then, my grandparents helped me buy a Powerbook 3400c.  I used that for two or three years, then bought my iMac DV SE and upgraded to 384 MB or RAM...I need more.  When I graduated HS (2002) my parents bought me a Dual USB iBook from eBay.

80286, 8mhz, 5mb hd, 512k ram  640x480 rgb monitor dos 3.2 (i think)
So many friggin cool games-some star wars game with 3 levels, line art, flew threw the death star and blasted stuff. Also had Wolfenstein 3d, greatest game of all time. Ahh, still have full version on cd (but plays sooo crappy on vpc)

Ohio Scientific Kit that my Dad put together for us.  The DOS was personally written by Bill Gates himself.

If I remember my history correctly, Bill Gates didn't really write DOS, but actually "borrowed" most of the code from CP/M.  I think all he actually wrote himself were some of the drivers for  floppy drives, etc.

He's really good at "borrowing," isn't he?

Not quite. 
He purchased the base code from someone else for 500(or was it 5000).  He then refined the code and expanded on it.  Eventually it became DOS and he came up with the idea to license it instead of just reselling it.

My family's first computer was a Mac 512, which we still have and still works, though you have to use percussive maintanence to get the monitor to work. (BANG BANG BANG)

My first computer I bought for myself was a Performa 6290CD. Lovely little machine that still works, although isn't being used. (If anybody's got a YDL build that'll run on it, PM me!)

Macintosh Quadra (can't remember number) with an ultra fast 25Mhz processor, a whopping 750MB hard drive, and the oh so