My first computer (technically it was my dad's) was an IBM XT 5160. With its blazingly fast 8088 CPU running at 4.77MHz and 640kB of RAM and 10MB of disk, it wa

My first computer (technically it was my dad's) was an IBM XT 5160. With its blazingly fast 8088 CPU running at 4.77MHz and 640kB of RAM and 10MB of disk, it was actually pretty fast and fun to work on. I remember as an 7-year old I wondered what was "boiling" inside the computer. I found out a bit later it was just the hard drive doing its thing, retrieving files and such. My dad wasn't technical enough to really explain what it was doing, but it sure was "thinking hard", he said. We still have that IBM and it works, 30 years later. Then later on I managed to save up enough money from working as a paperboy at 12 years old, to buy an Amiga 500. Later to be followed up with an Amiga 1200. I've gone through so many computers of different makes and architectures; from Commodore 64, to Sun workstations, SGI workstations and of course PC's mostly running either FreeBSD or Linux. Fast forwarding to 2017 and I have a MacBook Pro Retina, and quite frankly I think it is the best computer ever built.