My mom was learning BASIC on a similar Commodore VIC20. I remember playing Popcorn Time on it. My own first computer was a 486DX, just a few years later.

First we had was a Macintosh LC II, 10 MB Ram, 40 MB Disk, additional coprocessor card and 1 MB video Ram if I remember right. It was ok, but the newest games back then were unplayable on it, it was pretty much a "budget" model.

Think one of the first games I played on it was the original Prince of Persia. We also had a bunch of black and white/16bit games, don't remember the names though, except for Glider and Wolves in the Woods. Got F/A-18 Hornet 1.0 (a popular flight sim on Macs back then), which ran ok, 2.0 was terrible already.

First own computer was a Powermac 9500, with 200Hz and 128MB Ram. By the time I finally retired it (in 2004 I think) it was upgraded almost to the max, with 12 RAM slots filled (384MB I think.. could take up to 1.5GB even), 4x4GB SCSI HDs (one of them tied down with strings because there were no more slots left, USB card, ethernet card, Voodoo3 3000 and 400MHz G3 upgrade. And totally outdated, but I loved this computer. Still have it.

I've only had three, and only one of those actually belonged to me. The first was a Windows XP system, then I got my own laptop with Windows 7, and later a Windows 7 PC which I'm using right now. I was way too late for all that older stuff.

Aztec was fucking 5 star.

First computer was an Atari 800XL. I don't miss it at all and I am not nostalgic about it. Everything we have available to us today in computing is far better, more capable, and much less expensive.

Macintosh Performa 475. It might've been half-decent low-budget machine when it was introduced in 1993, but low-budget machines are rarely more than a paperweight for long. The world was moving fast in the 90's, it was practically ancient when I got it new in 1994, Apple had recently introduced the PowerPC machines and much new software after that required a PPC and thus wouldn't run on 68k machines at all.

150MB HDD, 4MB RAM soldered to the motherboard (with slots for upgrade), 512KB VRAM. Could do 256 colours at 640x480. Maybe even at 624x832, but I didn't have such a fancy high-resolution screen.

I don't remember if I got the external 4x CD-ROM drive at the same time, or if that was later. I know the HDD was upgraded to 250MB on warranty (because the 150MB ones were no longer available) and I got an Iomega Zip drive and upgrade the memory to 20MB at some point. Many years and a couple computers later, I replaced the HDD with a 4GB one, maxed out the RAM to 36MB, and added a network interface card. Some day I might even upgrade the VRAM to a full 1MB. Or cut the machine down to somewhere closer to its original spec, I don't know.

That was my only machine until 1999.

The earliest machine I used was an Apple II GS. Shadowgate, Thexder, and various Softdisk titles were what I played.

My first personal computer had the Athlon Thunderbird. Homeworld, DOOM, and so on were on my brain. Despite the gushing people had over Half-Life, I found it a yawnfest and gravitated towards Thief instead.

1988, a broken Commodore 116 with Datasette bought by my step-dad for 2,000 East German Marks and then fixed by him. Start of gaming, start of programming.

I've played a bit on my cousins 286 first, but I don't really count it. So "my" first PC was my family's 386dx40 with (IIRC) ~100MB HDD, 4MB RAM and a VGA card. No sound card, just PC speaker bleeps and bloops.

Played lots of shareware and freeware games, some pirated games like Stunts and Lands of Lore (my older brother was aghast at how it took up ~20MB HDD space!), and a legally purchased Wolfenstein 3D that my parents bought for my birthday! I actually had a choice between Wolf 3d and a Sega Genesis + game of my choice, and I chose Wolf 3d. That was when I officially became a true PC Gamer.

Paying extra for sound... Never really got it, growing up with C116/C64/Amiga Although I did it too, since my first real PC had a SB16...
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Mine was a Commodore VIC-20. It had an 8-bit MOS 6502 @ 1MHz, 5KB of RAM and a 16KB RAM expansion cartridge (which could only be used if the single cartridge slot wasn't already occupied). Graphically it could display up to 176 X 184 with 16 colours, but that wasn't usual in most programs. Sound was simplistic, three voice, pre-SID synthesis. It didn't have a hard drive because consumer level hard drives had only been released recently and were prohibitively expensive. What it did have was a cassette tape drive that took ages to load or save anything. Most of the games I had for the system were magazine type-ins like "Bonking Barrels" and "Bee Keeper", although I did have a single cartridge game called "Alien" (not based on the film).

My first x86 PC was a Kaypro PC. It had a 16-bit Intel 8086 @ 4.77MHz and 1MB of RAM. Graphics were CGA, so 80x25 with 16 colours in text mode and 320x200 with 4 colours in graphics mode. Sound was PC squeaker (I wouldn't have proper sound until I received my 386 system and Adlib in 1987). Storage was handled by dual 5.25", single-sided, single-density floppy drives. Some of my favourite games were "The Ancient Art of War", "Rogue" and various Infocom games like the "Zork" series.

The first computer I played games on was my dad's Acorn BBC, mid eighties. Games were loaded from a 5 1/4" floppy drive. Before that, we had an Acorn Electron with a tape player to load programs, but I don't remember if I played games on it.

On the BBC I played Starship Command, Elite, Pengo. Starship Command loaded from tape, Elite from a 5 1/4" floppy. Pengo I don't know.

The first PC that I played games on was almost 20 years later, 2004 probably. A second hand Pentium III from my mother's. Before that, I had two consecutive Pentium II's from her (the first 1,5 GB HDD, the second 2 GB HDD, the Pentium III had a 30 GB HDD). But I don't remember if I played games on those Pentium II's.

The first PC game that I played extensively was Age of Empires.

Then there's the first PC I bought myself. It was an Acer Aspire T140. Also the first one I know the specs of (before that time, I hardly knew a thing about the inside of a computer, I learned it by the time I had this Acer):

Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB of RAM, GeForce 6200 TurboCache. It would count as first PC that I actually chose and bought.

My most favourite game on that PC was Battlefield 1942. And it's the most longed-for game to come on GOG for me.

Which Commodore? VIC-20, PET, C=64, Amiga 500, Amiga 4000? Probably some sort of Amiga if it had a hard drive?

EDIT: Or was it a x86 PC made by Commodore? I didn't even realize Commodore had made x86 PCs too, but some other message in the thread seemed to imply so too.

Gawd struth,how do I look back at something that was 20 years ago? Okay,I will try.It had win95 OS and came with a two inch thick (microsoft) manual.It had 20 meg hard drive and a very small memory allocation that had to be tweaked every time I changed playing games.I had to use a program to tweak the memory and the only thing that stuck in my mind was Commodore (make and model,absolutely no idea as one tends to forget things that are thrown out).I can't remember if it was 186 0r 286 and that's about it.

Had a bit more of a think and it was around 1992 and I checked when win95 came out in 1995 so it must of been an earlier windows OS.Anyhow what ever it was,it was a Microsoft OS as with the manual it was in constant use.I can say with confidence that it was a MS system and a hell of a thing to figure out problems via a manual and no internet.

Ok then it apparently was some kind of x86 PC made by Commodore. I admit I didn't know (or remember) Commodore had made x86 PCs too. I remember them only from the aforementioned, non-x86, home computers (ok I guess PET and Amiga 4000 were supposed to be computers for professional use, not so much for homes...).

When someone mentions "Commodore", to me it instantly means either Commodore 64, or Amiga 500. Usually 64.