You kids are young.
My first computer that I used was a Commodore PET. No disks... read programs off audio tapes.
First computer we owned (as a family) was a Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000. 80186 CPU, green monochrome screen, 2 5.25" floppy drives, no hard drive. Dad blew a lot of money on it to upgrade it to having a mouse, a clock/calendar and be able to support graphics (all of which required special proprietary add-on cards).
My first computer I owned myself was a Tandy 1400 laptop. 8086 CPU (NEC V20), dual 3.5" floppy drives, monochrome screen, no hard drive. Tried installing a 40MB HDD into it but couldn't make it work. My one big upgrade was the 1200bps modem.
I was psyched about my first 386. I think I put in a 105MB hard drive into it, and at the time I had the biggest hard drive of anyone I knew. I often think of that 105MB hard drive as I look at my 16GB USB flash drive or contemplate the 32GB MicroSD card.
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