Heh, I had a TI 99/4a, then a PC Jr. After that, I just built my own from off the shelf parts.
I built a few jameco kits after that. It was nice to be able to be able to afford a 386 motherboard and a 40MB ($465.50 iirc) hard drive after that once I had the grad school stipend:)
I started buying apple products in 2003 once I realized the problems with trying to run solaris on an x86 box. It was nice to have a real unix variant commercially available which didn’t require me to deal with odd hardware issues.