386 DX 40
2MB RAM
120 MB Harddisk.

Technically the first computer was a 48k ZX Spectrum clone called Cobra. Used it for some 6 months.

Then a 386 SX 16 MHz, 512 kb probably Trident video card, 2 Mb RAM and I think 120 Mb HDD. Some chance it may have just been 80 Mb. This was in '92. Not sure if the Cobra was also in '92 or late '91.

I think it was a Pentium running on 233 MHz, i recall using DOS commands. No idea where it ended. :/

First computer: Atari 65XE

Windows 95
Pentium 166
32MB RAM
2 GB HD
4xCD

I later upgraded that thing with a 10GB hard drive and a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee. What a piece of antiquated garbage that thing was. Loading a System Shock 2 quicksave would take up to 5 minutes. But those were the days...

Amiga 500 :) I even upgraded the ram to 1 mb :D

but my brother had a c64 and then later a 80386 pc so I had used the console, too. And I do to this day, console is the best way to control a computer :D
(never liked the norton commander (or midnight commander) much to be honest, don't know why really ... probably too fancy ;)

Yes, I remember the first lan parties with friends (playing half-life and shadow warrior and so on...) transporting that monitor (had a 17 inch CRT by that time) was always a pain (in the back)

and yet we wouldnt want to go back
because the systems we got these days are just so much better

i got a laptop thats just 10 years old ( a celeron)
and the difference is just night and day let alone a pc from 1997

well ... maybe if we could take a few pieces of hardware back with us? :D being young again _and_ having the fastest computer in the world, that'd be nice ;)

Commodore 64. And I still have one working C64 up to this day (it's not the first one but yeah)

1st: Commodore 64.
At some time it developed a tendency to overheat, and I had to get a second one, as I was using it seriously as a word processor at the time.
The overheating was solved by removing the internal shielding.
Both are still in full working order. So is the datasette (tape) and the floppy drive, a 1541-II.
The printer, an Okimate 20 colour thermal printer, also worked the last time I used it, but it hasn't been plugged in since...can't remember. Still have it in the attic, though.

2nd: Commodore PC 20-III with 80286 CPU (80287 clone added later), 640 kB RAM and 20 MB hard drive.
That one I no longer have around. Nor the printer, a Panasonic KX-P1124.

The term first computer has a few different meanings for me covering different time spans.

When I was young and in public school I was deeply interested in computer programming and would hijack any computer I could get my hands on for as long as possible whenever possible so for example I more or less took over the computer that we had at public school back then and the teachers encouraged it because I had more interest in it than other students. The first one we got was a SuperPET, and later on an Apple II which was eventually upgraded to an Apple IIe. That sparked my interest in computers in general but in computer programming specifically once my aunt had told me "why play video games when you can make your own" and left a programming book for me to study. In high-school we had 2 or 3 Apple IIe computers in the library and anyone could use them, so I more or less took them over during lunch hour and after school until they booted me out.

The first computer I had access to personally at home was a Commodore 64 on loan from a friend. He bought it used from someone and brought it over to my house to do some gaming and left it there over the weekend. He was always intrigued about what I could make a computer do when I got my hands on one, and so he ended up leaving it at my house for me to use and would come over regularly to do some gaming and see what I had programmed. I have to thank him for that because that was really my first personal access to any computer unrestricted and I learned a tonne when presented with the actual opportunity. Ultimately it lead me down a computer enriched path that eventually lead to an amazing and successful career. That probably would have happened anyway one way or another, but having access to that C64 back then really gave me an outlet to grow my interest and to learn a lot.

After he eventually took the C64 back, I went dry for a while until my uncle loaned me a C64 and later a C128 upon which I learned machine language and more or less mastered everything you could really do on the machines. Eventually I bored of the limitations of the Commodore computers and lacking the funds to buy something more modern like the Amiga 500 dream machine, my obsessive passion turned from computer programming to playing electric guitar as my main focus, where it continued for a number of years until...

My very first actually bought and owned computer was in college in 1993. I bought an AMD 386DX-40 with a Cyrix math coprocessor, 4MB of RAM, 1MB Trident 8900 video card, and the classic Sound Blaster 16. That was my first PC and my re-acquaintance with obsessive-compulsive computer programming. :) I quickly mastered Microsoft QBASIC and QuickBasic, then went on to learn C and finally assembly language. I spent a lot of time doing C and assembler programming throughout the 90s including a fair bit of video game programming mostly bit-banging the VGA hardware et al in MSDOS at first and then in Linux for the remainder of the decade. I remain an avid Linux developer ever since then to this day but oddly enough despite also using Windows for the last 20 years primarily for gaming and a few other things, I have never written or compiled a single line of source code in or for Windows to date (ignoring code contributed to cross-platform projects which successfully build on Windows of course). :)

I have a lot of fond memories of learning assembler and writing tonnes of graphics code among many other fun projects over the years. Of course there were a pile of great video games over the years also, both on the C64/128 and the PC. So many great memories of both gaming and coding I don't even know where to begin. :)

My first PC / Console was a Ti-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

My first Real PC was an IBM PC Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr

Good old days. :P

Actually it's funny because the turbo button was actually there to take a fast CPU and slow it down to be able to run old software that didn't work properly with faster modern programmers, but the marketing people decided that having a "snail" button wasn't nearly as good of a marketing idea as having a button labelled "turbo", so that's what stuck. :)

If you run various video games back then on native hardware many of them fail due to using timing mechanisms that were tied to the CPU frequency which of course varies from CPU to CPU. I remember one such game was MS-Pacman for MSDOS, you would start a game and in less than a fraction of a second all 3 of your lives would be killed from the game running at Mach 5000. LOL The turbo button was intended to drop the CPU frequency down to allow more old software like that to be still usable, but over time with computers continuously getting faster it became impractical at a certain point and ended up getting dropped from the standards PC system builders use when designing new systems. It was for the best though as it had become a rather useless button by the year 2000 or perhaps earlier even. :)

Nowadays things like DOSbox make running older software work a lot better anyway. ;)