My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 with a cassette tape drive for storage. When the super powerful Commodore C-64 came out, I got one with the modem as an add on.
I went to a club meeting to try to learn something more about the C-64. I met a guy there that we exchanged phone numbers. He called me a hour after the meeting and he read to me a few lines of code to type in, and I hit enter. It was a super low end modem program. That allowed him to send me a program that I saved to my single sided 5.25 inch floppy drive. That was a full modem program. The world of the BBS was open. And this was when AT&T owned all the equipment. It was illegal to own your own phone, or to plug in a modem. I did it anyway as I was a rebel without a clue.
My bought a pair of jeans on Compuserve. Then I got my first bill from Compuserve for the connect time and almost fainted. They charge by the minute, and at 300 baud it was just too expensive.
My first IBM platform PC was a 4.77 Mhz CPU. and DOS 2.1 two 360K floppies, and 256K of RAM. I quickly maxed out the memory to 640K and then added a 10 MB hard drive.
When I upgraded that it was to a 386 CPU and 2 MB of RAM! I still have my copy of Windows 386 which is basically Window 1.
This is my first mouse that I got with Windows 386. It is patent pending and has a steel roller ball.