The first one that my dad bought me was a Tandy 1000-SL, from Radio Shack, I remember playing lot's of games on it!, it had a 8086 CPU running at 8MHz, super-ultra slow compared to what we have now, but in those days I was marveled by it!, and it only had a 5.25" floppy drive that stored 360k of data. The operating system was called "DeskMate", it ran directly from a ROM chip, and if you wanted to setup the BIOS or boot into DOS you would have to insert a floppy. Later on I upgraded the memory from 384k to 640k, and my dad bought me the 3.5" 720k floppy wich was around $70 in those days! nowadays you gan even get a floppy drive for free! LOL!
Tandy 1000-SL
Few years later my parents bought me a Packard Legend 2051, which was the first computer I used that came with Windows For WorkGroups 3.11, It was really cool, and had a HDD, and CD-ROM drive!
I installed a 28.8k modem in it wich I later updgraded to 56k. And that's when I started getting into the world of what was called "Bulletin Board Systems" wich you dialed-in with the modem, I still remember where I would go every month to download the BBS phone directory, it was called "The Atomic Cafe".
Packard Bell Legend-2051
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