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That's pretty much peak beige.

The first computer my family had was a Windows 3.1 PC. Sadly, I don't remember the specs for it.

At the time this was in fact super powerful, I am impressed!!

This is the first machine I ever bought with my own money. An iBook G3 Snow White 500 MHz with 64MB of RAM.

That is a very decent spec machine for that time!

That was my dream machine back then...

I’m actually EXTREMELY impressed. I remember looking at CompUSA ads in the Sunday paper, dreaming about having a machine like this.

not impressed. I bought a Kaypro 4. I don’t remember the year, but I do remember that I was getting paid about $24,000 a year, and the computer plus dot matrix printer cost about $2100.

OOOOOooooo!

Ahhh

My first was in 2000. From what I remember it was a Pentium III running at 550Mhz, 10 gig hardrive, CD ROM, a floppy disc drive which saw a lot of use, had an ATi graphics card but ultra low end, a Sound Blaster, can't remember how much RAM and a crt monitor to go with it. Didn't use it for gaming.

As an early PC enthusiast (Timex Sinclair was my first), anybody that got in the game early gets props in my book.

By that time I already had some computers before; A Commodore vic20, C128, A500, A1200 8088 , 286, 386sx A Zenith laptop (486sx)

4 GB Hard drive sounds like a heck of a LOT for that era of computer. I am impressed. Less so because it's a Mac. Eww.

I vaguely remember it being maybe $2K-ish, but not 100% on that.

I’d be more impressed if you’d got the souped up 333Mhz version that I had.

Had one myself.

XTREME!!!

I got to work on one in our IBM clone store. lol. Everyone was lost, they had to drive it to Sioux Falls 2 hours away to get help.

Can’t remember the specs but bought my first in Fall of ‘96, it was a Gateway 2k, and they let me order online and waited for my mailed paper check to clear before shipping. 😅

I am very impressed, Mr. Sack

Bring back Zip drives. Consider me impressed Joe!

Calling a ZX81 a PC is a bit of a leap in marketing (on that US packaging) .......😀

I remember being excited about upgrading the RAM in my first computer from 640 KILObytes to one MEGAbyte. No hard drive, just two 5 1/4 inch floppies. Had to boot DOS from a floppy first to run anything. Monochrome amber screen, no graphics. 300 Baud modem screeching away to connect to IBMnet.

if only it was a MEGAPOWER PC

What futuristic super-computer is this? My first was an IBM XT clone, with a 5 1/4 inch floppy, a massive 20 MB hard drive, Hercules monochrome, and a lightning fast 1200 baud modem…. 😁

What's a computer?

Fair. It’s just that gaming on a Mac is relatively not talked about beyond…well, most retro computer or gaming circles. Would make for an interesting video at some point!

I had the PowerMac 8600/300 that was a very similar design

Learned Photoshop on those PowerMacs. Learned how to hack 30 day Photoshop trail CD’s on those machines as well 😉.

I don’t care what anyone says, late-stage Snow White design language is hot.

1983.

640k is all you need.

Zip drive! That's what they were called! Oh man, I remember them now! Those were the future back then! You could fit a whole mp3 on one!

Impressed. At the time I got rid of my IBM PCjr and got an IBM AT clone. Broke my budget with a monochrome monitor and a 20 MB hard drive. LOL

Gives me flashbacks of my Pentium II, which I would overclock from 266 to 300, so that the SNES emulator would run at full speed, sometimes freezing the computer in the process.

Meh. Grandma got a 400mhz with a DVD rom in 98

I am impressed right now

Commodore 64 was my first as a kid, or whatever it was called. Got to play pole position on it.

TRS-80 Model III, I'd say be more impressed, but I'm friggin' old. Sigh.

Mine was something less sexy than a Mac 😅 TO7 70. It had a Motorola 6809E CPU running at 1 MHz, 64 KB of RAM (with 6 KB of ROM), a 320 x 200 pixel display supporting 16 colors.

My first PC had a Pentium 120, 16Mb RAM, a 1Gb hard drive, quad speed CDROM. Red Alert and Duke Nukem were the first games I played on it.

This was mine.

Looks like you were dripping with money.

A serious piece of kit. I loved the way Apple styled their computers in this era.

For its intended purpose, almost nothing could out perform it at the time. These were in use in the US Navy until 1992. They were originally created to counter planes like the Zero, but later were found to be really, REALLY good for artillery support.

Ooh, a Zip Drive! I believe I was still rocking an AST Advantage! 9303 with a 133MHz Pentium in it.