A 486 (66MHz) with the huge harddrive (550 megs) and a whooping 16MB of RAM!

Too bad I was only 2 when win 95 came out.

My first computer was a Vic20

My first PC was a custom built 486 DX, 33 Mhz, 170 MB hard drive, 4 MB RAM, 1 MB Video with Vesa Local Bus Interface, 8 bit Mono sound and 1 each 5.25 in and 3.5 in floppy drive.

My first own computer is this Dell laptop that I'm using right now. Core2Duo T7500 (2.2 GHz), originally 2 GB memory (now 4), crappy integrated Intel graphics shit, 160 GB HDD, and a 17.1" 1920x1200 screen. I spoil myself. :D

But the first family computer was some ancient thing, with a 1 GB HDD, some archaic processor (we got it in... 1996), Windows 95, dunno how much memory.

I was too young to know anything about it other than the brand name on the box, Tandy. It was given to us and if there was ever a time to be scared of loading times.... It was with this thing and it's floppy 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks.

I remember having to know a few dos commands to run things. I believe it had windows software and you had to use the dos to use the basic interface. I'd play a few games with it but apparently it computer wasn't up to snuff performance wise. There was this one game I played a lot called Dangerous Dave and at the time, all the colors looked weird (normal to us at the time) and there were a lot of blues, light reds, pinks, ect. I happened to find the game again recently and not only does it run at it's normal speed (it ran in like slow motion back then), but it's colors were different with normal reds, blues, ect.

lol, I remember we also had two joysticks. One was one you put your hand around like if you were playing a flying game and the other one was a joystick you rested your thumb on to move around and used your other hand to hit a button on the other side of the controller.

We also had a game called Operation Wolf (which was a popular arcade game if I recall, like the Terminator machine gun ones) as well as a kickass card game that had at least 4 different games in it. It was cool, you got to pick your character from a large group of heads and after a 5-10 minute wait, you would play some cards. It was fun to play something like the old lady because if somebody got it, the character would turn into the old lady, lol.

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*edit* Another notable piece of hardware was our amazing(ly slow) line printer. We were also given a basic text program where you could create text and print it out for a sign. Just like the 5-10 minute loading times, trying to print something with the line printer took forever and it was loud as hell. Picture yourself sitting in the middle of a room and somebody is standing infront of you and then lets out a long yell while constantly moving a few feet to the right and left.

I bet old school gamers had a massive nerd rush when seeing that thing. What year was that machine?

I'm thinking the first computer I could call my own was probably an HP with Windows 95 on it.
The specs were probably crap. 20 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. No idea, but I remember playing the
Oregon Trail and having hell trying to get the Sims to work.

lol, anybody else remember Sim Life? I was too young to really understand what in the world you're supposed to do. Now that I remember it, it seems like a precursor to Spore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimLife

I was introduced to computers through an Osborne 1, though I remember more about it from exploring it once I was older than when I was first introduced. I suppose an XT (forget most of the specs now) was the first computer I truly learnt on.

*My* first computer, was a Pentium III 866. Wasn't any point in getting myself a PC until I left home for uni, given my parents could afford (and usually had) something better than I could afford at the time.

Edit: Just re-read the OP. My Dad still has the Osborne 1 *and* it still works.