for a long time I had tape drive. After, I think 2-3 years, I persuaded my parents to buy me a disk drive..

C64. I had it for around a year until I got an Amiga 500. Which I upgraded to 1mb to play games like Elvira. My favourite computer of all time, so many hours of pure classic gaming and computing. :(

Those were the days.

Atari 2600 ---> C64 ---> Amiga 600 ---> Amiga 1200

Macintosh Performa 475.

Still works beautifully, albeit upgraded to 36 MB RAM (from the original 4 MB) and 4 GB HDD (originally 150 MB), and with an added PDS-slot network card.

Modern websites do give it some trouble as neither iCab 2.99, Netscape navigator 4.0, Internet Explorer 4, nor Cyberdog 2 aren't very well accounted for by web developers today (not that Cyberdog ever was).

C-64 + lots of tapes :D
and later on:
486 DX-4 100MHz - a real rocket back then...

Microbee 64. 4 Mhz of blindingly fast monochrome graphics! And a tape drive.
Thanks to that system, to this day green phosphor looks high tech to me :)

No idea what our parents had back in those days, but I do remember that it cost the equivalent of about 3000 euros and it ran DOS. It has affected my life considerably, since all of my friends freeze completely when a computer program throws a black-and-white screen at them, whereas I do not. Also, it introduced me to computer games in the form of Grand Prix Circuits, Xenon 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny and, of course, Doom. Never mind that I was about four or five years old back then, I quickly learnt how to boot the thing and start a game and all such necessities. Thanks, mom, for letting your kids play with the very expensive and very delicate thing.

The first one I owned myself was an HP Pavilion DV 9540 or something. It was a 17" laptop which liked cooking its insides every thirteen months and therefore made me lose faith in all HP products.

I don't remember since I was only 5 back them.I remember that my cousin gave it to me with WC3 and 4,Crusader:No Remorse,Ultima 8,SimCity 2000 and System Shock.

The first computer I owned was an x86 xt with a turbo button that similated a 286 in performance. That computer lasted until my father chunked down the money for a Pentium 100 Mhz computer that came with a cd drive.

My memory's hazy but I think there was a 286 from work he used in between those two. The first actual pc I personally owned was a 386 SX when I was 18. By the time I got it I couldn't use it for much other than the old games I had from when I lived with my father. I killed it by installing Win 95 on it.

I can't remember what it was, but I think mine (well, my older brother's, actually) was XT first for a few years before moving on to AT. I could be remembering incorrectly though.

C64. Still got it, though i need to change one ram chip. Luckily i've got a C64C which works perfectly.
I think this is the third 'first computer' thread i'm posting in. ;P

Apple ][ Plus with tape drive.

First compatible was a 286-16.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum with RAM pack. Followed by an Amiga 500

I played so many Level 9 text adventures and Ultimate games on the speccy. I still have them somewhere.

TRS-80 Color Computer. Then an 80x88 IBM compatible.