[Telepathic Intruder]

My first computer was an XT with an 8088 processor, 4.77 MHz, 640K ram, no hard drive, two floppy drives, and a dazzling 4-color display monitor (including white). No internet of course. I probably had more fun with that one than any others since.

[bossmechanic]

My first was an AccessMatrix - amber monochrome screen, 2(!)7” floppy drives, dot matrix printer and acoustic modem cups built in. And it was CPM based. None of that MSDOS foolishness for me!

[bcsco]

I started with a Color Computer for the kids for Christmas, but wound up using it more than they did. Then, I went to an 8086, an 8Mhz with 256K (or was it 512...) RAM, a 20Mb HDD and two large floppies. Adding a modem, I was able to get to Compuserve. That 4 color monitor sure didn’t display games like the packages showed...

[Stegall Tx]

I upgraded my XT with a NEC V20 and got the boot time down to 60 seconds! Of course, I also had a 10 MB HD, a trade-off for keeping the green screen. </four yorkshiremen>

[shove_it]

Me too. With wide printer and UPS it cost me somewhere in the $3k neighborhood, as I recall.

[ken in texas]

I held out for the amazing 286 processor, and paid $370 for a Seagate 40MB hard drive plus an extra $96 for the MFM hard drive controller. The truly adventerous would try the drive with a RLL controller -- if all worked well you could get 60MB out of the 40MB drive.

Those were some fun days, but it could sure get expensive.

[RightOnline]

"My first computer was an XT with an 8088 processor, 4.77 MHz, 640K ram, no hard drive, two floppy drives, and a dazzling 4-color display monitor (including white)."

Show-off. Mine had metal rods and colored beads....called an "aba-something"......