You've all been in it longer than me. My first was a 633mhz intel HP with 64mb ram, and onboard video, and 30 gig hdd, with windows ME. My father in law was a pc guru, and I showed it to him in the sale paper and he said that was an awesome deal and that id never fill up that hard drive.
We later upgraded the ram to 512mb, and 80 gig hdd and installed win XP on it. It was still running until about 3 years ago or so. Not used, but running.
And to think, my Droid X smartphone is twice the powerhouse as my first pc but it only has a 16gig sd card.
The amazing thing is the extreme advancement of the last 10 years compared to the 20 years before that. We've REALLY come a long way in this last decade.