I bought my first computer in '93. It was a *used* 486, 33Mhz and I paid $1250 for the thing. It came with the original Doom already loaded. I must've played that game for hours on end. I think I failed a few college courses thanks to Doom.You wanna talk about prehistoric, my first puter was an XT I bought for about 1200 in 1987 or so. I had a CGA simulation program that let me play some CGA games (like World Tour Golf) in monochrome. Still got it.I still love it (even if the graphics are prehistoric). Looking forward to this one.
Incidentally, the following year I used the same computer to go online for the first time (after I installed a "high-speed" 14.4k modem)!
The first puter I coaxed online was a 386-25MHz that I boosted up to 10 meg. We won't even talk about what I paid for its replacement, one of the first of the Pentium IIs. The 233 is being refurbished for a friend (which is what happened to the 386 as well) after I used what I could to build my 733 (at about half what a new one would have cost).
-Eric
My first was a TSR-80 followed by an Apple II.