A Thomson MO5...

I remember i had to switch turbo off to be able to play fighting games like street fighter or Mortal Kombat. Else the game was becoming too fast.

Ah, so that's why that was there. Remember wondering myself why would you depress it on my 486.
That came after the 386 mentioned before, in '94 - 486 DX2 66 MHz, same 512k video card as the 386, 4 Mb RAM later upgraded to 8 Mb to play Warcraft 2, 540 Mb HDD. Had to keep using that till autumn of '98, put Win 95 on it too at some point, despite keeping being told that's no computer for '95. Well, it worked. CPU and motherboard fried 10 days after finally getting a new one, as parents had taken it to use themselves so I'd keep the new one as my own... That didn't last long. (No idea what happened to the 386, they took it to be "upgraded" to the 486 in '94, but other than perhaps the video card nothing of it was left so...)
Then in '98 came a Pentium II 266 MHz, S3 Virge 4 Mb video card, 32 Mb SDR 66 MHz RAM later (know it was on my birthday, but not sure whether in 2000 or 2001) upgraded to 64 Mb, 3.2 Gb HDD with a 20 Gb one added I think in late 2001. That was also the first computer I took apart, helped by someone, right after getting it, just take out and spread all components on desk and floor and then put it back together. It had a decently long life though, as after getting the new one my parents took it, and this time could keep using it, till I guess they also switched to the newer one when I left for Iasi in 2003, till I also had the computer brought there a year later, at which time they got themselves a new one and gave the PII, which I guess had just been lying around for that year, to some friends of theirs, so it was still in use. I for one kept it on Win 95 OSR2 all the time I used it, not sure if that changed after.
And that gets my "system history" to autumn of 2002 and likely way too recent for this thread :))

Yup, it dropped the CPU frequency down to something like 4.77MHz or thereabouts to be compatible with the 8086 more or less, but instead of it being a backward compatible slowdown switch they reversed the wiring to call it "turbo" to sound cooler for marketing purposes. :)

Today's CPUs wouldn't handle that, although one might be able to approximate it by disabling the CPU cache entirely, but modern operating systems would not like that very well and would take a month to start up. :)

Why do you call it a console?

I was more wondering why does he call it a PC? :)

Well, 'home computer' may be more accurate, but I'd say it's closer in nature to a PC than to a console, i.e., it's a general purpose computer.

True, but it has that ugly console wart on the right side of the keyboard too. :)

because it used cartridges to play games or you could program games using basic. It had both so for me it was both PC and a Console. :P

I think it was an Athlon Thunderbird that was custom-built during the mid-90s. Good for playing Unreal Tournament, Thief, and System Shock 2.

For a computer that I didn't actually own, but was by my parents: An Apple II GS. I vaguely remember that back when I was still crawling about, that my father was playing the Oregon Trail on it. Most of my early gaming experiences are tied up with whatever was distributed by Softdisk.

The first PC I used was an old W95 with unknown specs, my parents bought it used but there were some adventures preinstalled which I enjoyed a lot.

The first PC I bought games for was an old Windows XP pebuild used PC with 512 MB RAM and a 1,6GHz processor (graphic card unknown) which is still in use.

the first PC I bought myself was 5-6 years ago years ago, I was a 500€ prebuild PC (display, keyboard and mouse included in the prize, display and keyboard still in use on my new PC) where I replaced the graphic card (2,4GHz quad core amd processor, GTX 560 Ti, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD)

The first high end PC was a month before the relese of TW3, which is the one I use now.

A computer that could be called truly mine? 2009, there I tried to work the best out of a graphics card that was from 2004, not hing end in any definition of the word, but it worked enough for me to emulate ps2, gameboy, nintendo64 games when my consoles didn't want to work but rather spend hours of my time turning them on.

However the first computer I could have played and came close to almost being that was in 2004 as it was when my dad had made an accouting partnership with some of his collegues in uni, everyday I would play there CS with some of the workes who were not during work time, but only played 2 matches and then they were back to work so the only thing I did with it was use Microsoft Dictionary from that time which used 3 discs to work and even track the current flow of people born with my name or others.

BBC Micro Model B
2Mhz MOS 6502 8-bit CPU
32KB 4Mhz RAM
No hard drive, 800KB 5.25" Floppy Drive

It was quite impressive what you could run on such limited hardware, especially when you consider that there was no graphics chip, so the graphics RAM was shared with the main CPU (Elite being the obvious example).

One word: Microsoft.