First family computer ....
Macintosh LCIII
25 MHz, maxed out to 20 MB RAM, 25 MB HDD (expanded with an external 375MB ... still have that external drive!), 14" monitor, external NEC 3x CD-ROM drive (cartridge loading!!). Awesome machine, and founded my Mac enthusiasm. Used that computer regularly up through 8th grade.
First "my" computer ...
Compaq Presario 4504
Pentium 200 MHz, 16 MB RAM (expanded to 48MB), 2 GB HDD, 15" monitor with attached speakers and volume control located on the monitor. Handed down to me in late 1998, I toyed with that thing as much as Windows 95 allowed me to ... for example, it would only let me install 1042 font files before they all crashed and it wouldn't display any text anymore, and once I ran
five toolbars just to see if I could ("Bail Out" is a shortcut to C:\Windows\RUNDLL32.EXE User,ExitWindows). Tiny beautiful tower, too, but a horrible design; had to disconnect the mobo to do anything!
Similar to this one, but mine had a door covering the 16x CD-ROM (and a 2x1x4 Acer CD-RW drive, which I still use regularly now in the eMachines) ...
First computer I bought on my own:
Macintosh PowerBook 3400c
With all its 200 MHz, 16 MB RAM, and 2 GB HDD glory, I still enjoy toying with this thing when I have time. It was truly a grand machine for its time, and when I saved up my hard-earned Burger King money and bought it in 2000 for $699 from MacResQ, I thought I was getting the deal of the century. Hah! Nice thing was, however, all external SCSI accessories saved from the LCIII (external hard drive, CD-ROM drive) worked with this machine.
