First Computer Ever Used/Owned?

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Thought this was cool. Love Windows 95, 98, ME and XP startup!

Also all Mac startups

First use, silicon graphics for Catia ,first owned Pentium 90, WIN 3.11. Took a lot of setting up, but then worked fine.

First computer used, Apple ][ Plus.
First computer owned, Apple //e.
First Intel based computer used, NCR Model 4.
First Intel based computer owned, Dell 325.

I'm not sure about the first computer I ever owned, but the first ever used was either an Apple IIe at school or a Burroughs B20 (not sure which model) that my dad would sometimes bring home from work...it had this game on it, Rats, that was equal parts bizarre and amusing.

I was 15, so 1990, i got my first PC.
I already had interest in the Commodore 64, but wasn't allowed to buy one.

We got a Tulip 80286 with 40 MB HDD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk, 1 MB memory and a VGA-256 color monitor. And a rectangular mouse.
A beast for that time.

Later, when we also got Windows 2.0 we bought a whopping 2 MB of memory extra.

First one I ever used was an RML 380Z. First one I owned: a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

When I was 9 or 10, parents bought us four kids a SpectraVideo "computer" to play games on. It had a chicklet keyboard and a red and black joystick. No mouse. The games took forever to load on the tv and each game was a cassette. Moon Landing and Armoured Assault are two games I remember.

First computers I used were old IBM units of unknown model, with no local storage, and games were played off of 5.25 disks - things like Odell lake, Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, Summer / Winter games. (school)

After that, some assorted Mac Classic, II-LC, etc, mostly used to play Diamonds or text-based adventure games and basic computer lab lessons. (school)

Then an Intel 486 DX/2 66mhz, a Pentium II 266mhz, an AMD K-6 500 mhz. (home, family machines)

My personal first machine was also an AMD K-6 500, followed by an AMD Athlon XP 2200 w/ GeForce 4 MX440 64mb

First self-built machine was AMD Athlon XP 2600 / ABIT NF7-S V2 board / 1gb RAM / Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

Followed by:

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 / ABIT AN-8 Fatal1ty Edition board / 2gb RAM / GeForce 7800 GT 256mb

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400 / 4gb RAM / GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb

-Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 / XFX 750 nForce4 board / 8gb RAM / GeForce 9800 GTX 512mb x2 in SLi

-Intel i5 4690 / MSI Z97S Krait Edition board, 8gb RAM / GTX 1050 Ti 4gb

-Intel i9 11900K / MSI MAG Z490 board / 64gb RAM / RTX 3070 Ti 8gb (current)

An Atari 800XL. I used to love playing mountain king on it.

Then a big gap and a windows 98 PC in 2004.

Am I the only one who detests Win 11? I really don't want these eternal unasked for pop-ups, making my decisions for me. I was happiest with Win 98 along with Partition Magic (does Win 11 even allow for partitioning?) which I coud set up to work the way I wanterd to. I'm aware people are inclined to want to stick with their first practical experience, and our evolution tends to be slow, but here I am, 30 years later, and if anybody produced a web compatible OS that looks and feels like 98, I'd buy it!