Mine was a TI-99-4A, but I only had it for a couple of weeks.  Returned it to get a ZX Spectrum.

Yep.  1982.  Still have it...

IBM 7044 .... Melbourne Uni's machine .... when I was still in 4th form [Essendon Grammar] - 1969 ...

This is a question of kind of like, "How old are you?" Ok, my first one was Ohio Scientific, casette tape drive for storage, 20 characters on the screen, opened with a hexadecimal user interface in upper right corner. Circa 1977 (?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Scientific

I had an IBM comp that ran on Windows 3.1(those were the days), but the OS eventually was upgraded to Win 95. My very first internet adventures began on that lil' guy.

I can't remember the spces or even the model number, though.

I bought a 1978 Apple II that came with 16k ram (hoowah).  It was serial number 0000750.  I wish I still had the b a s t a r d as the Smithsonian may want it.  I purchased an additional 32k ram for $300 bringing it up to 48k ram.  No disk drives were available at the time so it used (get this) a cassette for recording/playing programs.  It had color but it came with a green monochrome monitor.  What a pile but I loved the thing dearly.  I followed the chain up later II+, IIe, IIgs etc.  Heck I still remember the first couple of games that were available, one was a Tie fighter shoot em up ala Star Wars and the other was an RPG style game called Beneath Apple Manor.  Good topic! 

exactly the same as me.

Apple IIe - paid about $3,000 for it. (1982 I think)

We used to have a small computer club that took donated computers and got them all cleaned up and running then gave them to mostly shut ins and specially needs folks. It was called "The Black Smoke Computer Club" The president said that computers ran on black smoke and if the smoke escaped they quit running. Poor old IIe died of just that. Some capacitor or something wore out and started smoking. Since it was soldered to the board the grand computer went to its reward. Back then we used modems and dialed the local BBS (run by most of the folks in the club as well)

Next computer was a Falcon Northwest P90. This was back when they were just starting in my home town of Coos Bay, Oregon. When the city wouldn't give them some dispensation or the other they left. I was told for my CAD and such to get a gaming machine and then I would have all I need. I think it worked well. Last time I fired it up is was still running great. It was this computer that I had three IDE cards and 6 slots. It ran great. I don't know how many internet techs to me it wouldn't run that way.

Dis baby.

Yup. I still have mine. It's wrapped in plastic along with it's 12" monitor and about a dozen old games. Maybe I should dig it out and fire it up for old times sake and play some Sierra games... Space Quest, Manhunter, etc.

TI-99/4A

Apple IIe.  A mistake which I unloaded after 6 months & got a Tandy 1000 (also possibly a mistake).

But by that time I already had 4 years of professional programming on "big" computers, first an HP3000 Series 3.   Does that count?  Certainly programming it was more fun than anything I could do with the Apple.

You 'could' offer it to Eve...... [worked for Adam....]...

The same as mrs starkers in reply 44 and still have it pack away .

Colour Genie. Purchased by earning money doing a paper round. Not a popular computer but it did place me on a path that led me to what I do today, programming educational software for thousands of kids worldwide.

Apple Macintosh Performa 6110

60 Mhz PPC CPU

8 MB RAM

700 MB HD

4x CD-ROM

3.5" Floppy Drive

Mac OS 7.5

It cost me $2000

I got mad when I went to the store and found out that the only games that would play on my Mac were on one little shelf.

...I had a Palm Pilot in 2004 that was more powerful!

I'm with Liz - Apple IIe December 1982, about the same price as I recall.  Two (TWO!) 5.25 floppies.

Trs-80 from Radio Shack  Cassette drive. 

Ugh.

My first PC was an IBM Aptiva desktop from 1997.  I don't know the specs, as I was only 10 at the time.  The hard drive was SO "GRINDINGLY" LOUD compared to today's more efficient machines.  Not to mention it got super hot within an hour. It definitely did not have efficient cooling.

Vic 20.

Blue Meanies from Outer Space, dude.  And Adventureland.

First owned was a commodore 64.. but worked with appleI, appleII, and quite a few older models, love them punch cards.. 

Still have the commodore in my closet, (minus the monitor)

      Blasphemy!!!