Wow... I feel old. There's definately some computers before my time, but I was expecting to be newer than most. When I ehar first computers with Win95, brings back good memories of how insanely cool it was the first time I booted that P.O.S. operating system. I watched every percent of that installation in anticipation. Anyways.... Like many on here, Commodore 64 was the bomb. I was way too young to remember any sort of specs, but I do remember playing all sorts of games on it, like Moon Patrol, MISL soccer, some maze game, and a ton of others. Prior to that I had a Texas Instruments game console that rocked! After the 64 we stuck with commodore and got an Amiga and I played Red Baron and Strike Aces to death. Then a 386, then 486, then Ps I, then II, then II, now IVs. I think the first computer that was actually mine was one of the P-1s. I remember getting on AOL and bulliten boards and downloading porn, getting on my DOS picture viewer and wating 10 seconds for pictures to load up. Face........ Neck...... Boobs...... stomach...... etc..... We got our first CD-rom in probably early late 80's/early 90's (wasn't any special speed, cause they only had one speed at that point) and I had this "Animals" CD-rom that actually had movies of Cheetahs running on it, and I was blown away that I could actually watch video on my computer. Kept myself entertained in those days by playing Civ, Jobes in the Fast Lane, and getting on the Sierra Network and playing games.
Childhood, wow... good times. In 20 years, this same thread will pop up again and people will be talking about their first computer that was a P5 4.8 ghz and all the replies will be "OMG, STFU, that's sooooo lame."
Off to go play with my new Dell Axim X30.