But I wore an onion in my belt, which was the style at the time

Saturday night, I'm kickin' it, listening to some tunes and browsing the interwebs.
Was directed (via Fark) to this article about the 50th anniversary of the hard drive.
That got me to thinking about my first PC-the IBM PC Jr. A lovely machine produced for one year (1984-85). My guess is we got it for Christmas, so I was 8. But it was first shipped in March-so I might've been 7. Dad worked (works) for Big Blue and back then that meant something, employees got deals on the stuff the company made. Not like now. If you're not a geek and don't want to read the specs (it fascinated me...) a brief rundown.
The PC Jr had a retail price of $669
It featured the now Geek legendary 'Chiclet Keyboard' that required 2 AA batteries for use

The hard drive as was an impessive 4.77 mHz

The basic model offered 64 kilobytes of memory.

Programmers in training could use the highly functional and sure to never go out of style BASIC or (for the real tech geek) DOS languages. (Yep, I used to program in DOS-once, I got a line of dots to travel down the computer screen into infinity. I so rocked.)
Games included JumpMan (a game that foreshadowed my future gaming skills-I never beat it)
The 'floppy' drive was the optional and 'ere popular 5.25"
We weren't excellent enough to get the available 300 bit modem so I missed out on the Internet until the mid-90s when Dad let me connect to AOL on his company laptop one Saturday night. I had no idea what I was supposed to do with the Internet. The son of bitch that I hope is rotting in hell or suffering from inoperable extremely embarassing slow moving but inevitably fatal cancer had a connection but since he was a bastard that deserves death as much if not more than the person that pops into your head when you think of the most evil person your brain can conjure he never let me use it. My first search on the World Wide Web was for Red Dwarf. Not surprising in retrospect, but there were several websites-most of them based in the UK.
10 years after we got our first computer I was able to connect to a series of images created a half a world away about a relatively obscure (in the States anyway) science fiction TV show. The Internets clearly ROXORS.

Trying to wrap my mind around the idea of 64k of memory.
---The last story I wrote was 640k-10x the available memory on that first computer.
---The picture of me and Stephen Colbert is 16.9k
---My computer has 9.65gig of music
----That's 10,118, 758.4 kilobytes
----Which is 158,105.6 the amount of memory available on the PC Jr
----Just my copy of You Can't Always Get What You Want requires 5.08 mb. The first disc of 40 Licks would've over 2/3 of the memory (50k at 96 Kbps).

My first computer that I bought myself was an Aptiva. A huge piece of junk it died a painful (to me anyway) death less than 2 years later.
Next I bought an HP that set me back close to 2 Grand. It had a DVD player (totally posh in those days) an internal modem and something crazy like 2 gig of memory. I'd eventually upgrade it (out of necessity due to a hard drive crash that ate my undergraduate career) to 30 gig. In the 5-6 years I nursed that thing along I installed 2 hard drives, upgraded the memory to a finite level, a sound card, 2 modems (finally settling on an external model, and a CD-RW upgrade. Went through 3 monitors and approx 7 keyboards.

Today I've got one of those laptops all the kids were raving about 5 years ago.
It's not the top of the line but I'm everything but complaining.
60 gig of memory.
CD-RW/DVD drive (one-not 2 like the HP)
1.6 GHz processor
15.4 in screen
Wi-Fi Card

I have more downloaded Fry and Laurie video than the available memory on all of my previous computers combined.