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A Brother word processor. It was technically not a computer, but my friends Dad was a computer technician and he modded it and showed my brother and I how we could play games and some other software that would run on a Mac or what not. Good times....

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My first computer was when I was 3 and it was something that plugged into a TV and ran DOS and had a 5 1/4" drive, would have been 1989 or so... Second computer was in 1995 or 1996, a Pentium 100Mhz, 16Mb RAM, 1GB Seagate HDD, 2Mb S3 Trio, Sound Blaster 16, 4x Creative CD-ROM, 14.4k modem, 15" CRT monitor and Windows 95! Cost my parents $4500 at the time.

Ahh the memories :)

AST computer running a 486 processor at around 50-75 mhz, with 1-2 mb of vram, 4-8 mb ram edo, running windows 3.1. Not sure what other specs are there for this desktop. I was only 8 years old when I got my first computer for myself to use

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