Still is in effect, but we got to a point where the performance is good enough and they keep trying to sell us the "newer and better" all the time while we go "ya know what? I'm good, thanks, just want to know that what I have will keep functioning for a decade or more and software will still be fully compatible with it, and if you do come up with a new one, make it even more reliable and energy-efficient and change your materials and production so I won't be responsible for encouraging environmental destruction and modern slavery (or near enough as to make no difference) by purchasing it, k, thanks..."
Or maybe that's just me.

Interesting. Yeah I feel glad that my Win7 pc from 2009 still works ok bcuz I'd like to postpone replacing it as long as is practical.

386 DX 40 MHz
4 MB Ram
Some Trident 1 MB VGA Card
120 MB HDD
Soundblaster 16

this is the latest and newest version of lemmings there is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_%282006_video_game%29
its playstation only

I guess I missed this thread the first time around.

First PC: Apple ][+, 48 KB of RAM (that's not a typo), two 5¼" floppies and a dedicated CRT monitor. 1981.

Second PC: original IBM PC, a whopping 256 KB, two 5¼" double-density drives (still no hard drive, tho), pre-Windows MS-DOS 1984.

Eight or nine more since then, name-brand, private label and self-built. But as it turns out, my first computer is the first and only Apple product I've ever owned.

Oh, and I still have both machines, in the basement somewhere. No clue whether they'd still work, though. Probably not.

that is why i necro'd the thread

My first ever computer was a Commodore 64 I got from my parents. I was very young and remember finding the a lot of the music coming from the SID chip to sound rather scary at the time but I loved the thing. My fondest memories were for Oasis of Shalimar, Giana Sisters and Decathlete. Also frustrating memories of Robocop, only finding out this year that the level i could never beat no matter how hard I tried, was literally unbeatable due to the game being rushed out the door too fast to fix the bugs, so they just gave you a timer you couldn't beat.

My first PC i bought with my own money though, was a Pentium 1 DX4100 with a Voodoo 2 that I bought from a friend. For months after I first got it, t was all about Unreal Tournament '99.

Amstrad CPC 6128 here.

Top of the line at that time because it had a floppy drive, so you didn't have to wait 15 minutes for a game to load only to discover in the last moment that the tape was broken. HDD was out of the question. I didn't know what an HDD was until a friend got his first PC, and I remember asking "what do you mean the disk is hard?". (That and "what? you can switch the computer off and still keep things inside?")

It would boot a Basic interpreter, and from there you could load games or the OS it came with in a couple of floppy disks, CP/M, in a time when I didn't know what an OS was. Only thing I knew is I could use one of those disks to copy some games, because it had a... well, a copy command :-D

My excuse for buying it was learning to program, but I had very little success with that. Every time I started programming a new "game" I wouldn't go past drawing some lines with Basic on the screen and thought it would be too much work. Later I bought a "Games for Amstrad" book that was literally that, code listings of very simple games in Basic. I typed a couple of them only to decide they were much worse than the "real" games and not even bother to save the work of whole afternoons.

If something like Galaxy or Steam had existed then to keep track of time played, I think Match Day II would still be my top game. Must have spent thousands of hours in it, including changing every default team name every time I run it.

Oh, I remember something else. A friend used to come to play games at my home. Our concept of co-op was playing Commando on the same keyboard. I would control movement and he would sit there just pressing the space bar non-stop to shoot. I still wonder how he could put up with that crap for so long :-D. Years later we were very disappointed to learn that the game didn't even have an ending.

And of course, like everybody else at that time, I broke a couple of joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.

My first computer.

It's a bit rusty now, but someone has built an emulator.

If I remember right the turbo button was for machines with DX processors and the turbo button turned the maths co-processor on and off. If you were running a program that utilised the maths co-processor then you would see a difference in speed. If the program did not utilise the co-processor you would not notice a difference in speed.

Why you would want you maths co-processor switched off I am not really sure. Maybe some of the early ones got a bit hot?

My first computer was the amazing Acorn Electron. So much more colourful than the near-monochrome Spectrum. Yet the name Spectrum refers to a range of colours. Hmmm.

My avatar is from a famoous Electron game. Does anybody recognise it?

I don't want to discount the possibility of some vendor having implemented something like that, but I never came across such a button, and I've worked on a lot of different PC brands.
The turbo buttons were always linked to clock frequency.
My PC 20-III didn't have a button, but you could set the frequency by software.

I also remember atslow.exe and similar.

My first was a Commodore 64

My first computer was a 64K TRS-80 Color Computer. I eventually got a disk drive for it (using cassettes for the first couple of years) but it was a rather limited machine. I had a subscription to Rainbow magazine which had a lot of tricks to get around limitations of the machine. There were tricks to get more memory (even though it was 64K, you only had about 20K of actual memory to use and their tricks got you up to about 29K if I remember correctly) and to improve the graphics. The highest resolution graphics mode (256 x 192) was only B & W, but with their techniques, there was a way to also get blue and red. However, the two colors were unpredictable in terms of how they'd be assigned each time the computer started up, so there were a lot of applications where you had to start it up and keep resetting the computer until the startup screen turned a certain color before you could continue.

My second computer was a Tandy 1000, an 8088, 4.77 MHz PC compatible machine. It only came with 128K and I later expanded it to the full 640K. I also added a 20 MB hard drive which cost several hundred dollars. That computer lasted me a long time - I remember starting up a game of Civilization on it... it took 20-30 minutes for it to randomly generate the world. When I'd want to play, I'd start the game and then take off and grab dinner while it did all the work.

Mine too. With a Datasette. If i remember correctly i even used Turbo Tape to speed up load times, being the thrill seeker i was.