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My first computer was a Macintosh Plus or a variant thereof. We had lots of floppy disks stuffed with games, and that's what got me into gaming. Years later, we got a Compaq 486 SX-33 with 4 MB RAM (later 8), which is what really kickstarted my interest in computers and programming.
First computer to arrive in my household was some kind of (already) ancient IBM PC my dad "rescued" from work + box of random 5" floppy discs. It wasn't good for much, but I vaguely recall playing some puzzle / maze / blippy little horseracing games on it. :) Don't have much memory of our later, "better" computers - brain like a sieve when it comes to such things.
My first computer was a 25MHz 486SX with 32MB of RAM, it ran Windows 95, had 120MByte HDD, 3.5" Floppy drive and no sound card or CD drive.
mine was a Commodore C128 with a Turbo Loader (though I mostly used it in C64-mode since there was more software available for it), followed up shortly by an Amiga 500.
http://www.cgu.edu/pages/images/pcmu...e128_front.jpg
Mine was an Atari 400 with 32KB of ram and the A410 cassette. Got that in '82. That served me well until I finally replaced it with an Amiga 500. I did expand the Atari over time... 64KB Mosaic RAM, full stroke keyboard, a Percom DD floppy...
Commodore 64, used it primarily for games, tried to learn basic programming when I was a kid but never really understood it very well to be honest (though I was like 10 at the time)
The C64 held me out pretty well until we got a Mega Drive, was a pretty big jump lol.
I envied my C64 owning friends, they had a built in graphics tile-set for their Basic game programming needs.
Tandy TRS-80. Neat little system; I was able to learn BASIC using it.
Had a choice between a CompuAdd PC and an Amiga with a 386 sidecar..
Guess who would have been programming 68000 games decades earlier if he made the right choice then?