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...
You go back before me then. The 8086 preceded the 8088. Actually I did have an Odyssey pong machine before that, which was like the predecessor of the x-box type game machines.