I was stuck with a 386/16Mhz/40 megs hd, and a whopping megabyte of ram.
At least it taught me that it was sometimes worth optimizing my code...
Sometime aroundish 1988 I paid $600 for an 80MB hard drive, out of a $12K/yr stipend. Good times.
286 + 1MB RAM + 40MB hard drive.
This was 1992 and it was valued about 1000$.
First computer that was strictly mine was a CoCo 3 in 1986, and the first one I built entirely myself was a 486-66 back in 1993.
Yep, we definitely remember those first machines.
I thought MS Extended Basic on the CoCo was pretty cool.
Ended up moving to Apple ][ a few years after that, but still have very fond memories of the CoCo, even though everyone else I knew had something else and liked to refer to my computer as a Trash 80.
3.0 would crash every 15 minutes on average. 3.1 would crash every 45 minutes on average. 95 would go a day at a time, 98 would go several days, XP was stable a month at a time when there weren't major exploits or bad driver behavior.
...and so on. I may be overstating the impact SLIGHTLY, but 3.0 really was crash prone to the point magazines heavily pushed people to 3.1 when that came out, and 95 was definitely significantly improved over that, and so forth (skipping ME, of course) until XP.
XP, on the other hand, practically never crashed, unless you had bad drivers. Just like Windows NT4 & 2000 before it.
12.5 MHz
1MB ram
2x 5.25" floppy drives (one HD, one DD)
10MB hard drive
HGC (640x200 monochrome) with amber monitor.
That was in 1992 and it was an abysmally slow system.
I spent literally HOURS trying every single driver on the SimCity 2000 CD until I found one that worked - it was an OAK videocard with the bare minimum of RAM needed.