My first real computer was a donated (read: thrown out) Mac of some sort- I think it was a little Quadra thing.

A guy I knew rehabbed PCs- he would get these big donations of computers- and he'd cannibalize and build them all. He didn't touch the Mac stuff- so he just gave it to me.

One of the things he gave me was a 5+ year old Power PC 8100/100, that was my computer for several years. I spent a fortune upgrading the RAM, but stuff changed fast back then and that thing couldn't keep up no matter how much I tried to goose it up. Ended up with a Pentium II box running W95, then a couple of Dell something or others.

Eventually picked up a MacBookPro that lasted for a good 10 years. I'm on my 2nd MBP.