store brand 286 with a 40 meg hard drive bought at Montgomery Wards for around a couple thousand if I remember right.

Loaded with :

Mavis Beacon

dos

Microsoft works I think

and netscape

First work computer was a Wang 2200 (I think) late 1970's was basically a fancy calculator that printed to a IBM Selectric!!

First home computer as a 486-25 built by a local computer company in about 1990 (I think), man I spent a ton of money on that thing, then threw it away a few years later....

First computer I worked on was a TRS80. Took a summer school programing class.

First computer my family had was some knock-off brand 86 with duel floppy drives (around 1985 or so). A couple years later I installed a 10 MB hard drive and thought that was just the bad ass machine.

I bought a 286 when I started college. Have bought was too many computers sense then.

Epson 8086 no hard drive 1 5 1/4 floppy drive. RGB monitor.

#33 Thanks. However, since I stopped building my own machines (it's only worth the time and money if you want something really different or something way high-end), I really haven't had much call for using DOS commands. Not much I can do in DOS that I can't do in Windows really. At least not much that applies to my use.

Commodore Vic-20. Almost bought a Timex also.

Osborne with 7"(?) screen. Got a Mac in '85. Upgraded to Mac+ a year later for around $1,800.

IBM PCs w/128kb were going for $2k at that time.

Gateway Refurb.. was in 98'. I don't remember may details other than the monitor weighed a couple hundred pounds...

TI-99/4a

Had an apple IIe back when they came out...

Was yours specially painted pink and studded with rhinestones Victor?

1979 - Coleco Adam

Compaq i386 followed very quickly by a Packard-Bell Pentium 120.

The W.H.O.P.P.R.

"Would you like to play a game?"

Global Thermonuclear War

"How about a nice game of chess?"

Radio Shack 16K Color Computer before I upgraded to the 64K Color Computer II