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Timmah! said:
Just for kicks, I'll post my family's first computer when I was young (given to us by our church when they upgraded to 286s):

Processor: IBM 8088 running at 4.77MHz
Graphics card: Ha!
Memory: 640K TOTAL!
Motherboard: IBM Compatible 8-bit motherboard
Operating System: MS-Dos 3.0
Hard Drive: 32MB 700RPM Drive (and it was HUGE)
External Drive: 5.25" Floppy
Modem:4800 Baud Modem
Sound card: Beep
Monitor: 12" Orange Monochrome CRT

Cost:Free!

We've come a long way...

 Commodore 64 was our first =)  If you really can call it a PC.  

We used to have a ton of games too...Minnesota Fats is the only one I can remember now though.  I would have to dig around and see if we still have them to remember the rest. 



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