My first PC was a Tandy1000RL. It was used and fairly obsolete by the time I got it, but I squeezed every drop I could get out of that thing. I learned DOS on it, and learned to reinstall DOS and deskmate after I accidentally blew away the OS with a misplaced deltree command. I spent quite a bit of time trying to make games in QBASIC.

I played a lot of old games on it, mostly purchased from corner stands in the super market and the occasional box title from Ames department store. They just sold the disk in a sleeve with a short description of what I was purchasing. I was constantly frustrated by my lack of VGA graphics, sound blaster and sometimes available conventional memory. Tandy graphics (which I learned later was really just a souped up version of CGA) were not that commonly supported so I was often stuck playing games in 4 color CGA mode. I eventually upgraded the RAM from 512KB to 768KB, which cost me $75!

The annoying double density 720K floppy drive was a non stop hassle requiring me to learn pkzip and zip spanning to split the contents of the then common high density disks on a school PC so I could then get the contents onto my hard drive. I had to go to my uncle's house if I wanted to get data off a 5.25" disks, and when he did the copies as a favor for me he usually returned a high density 3.5" that I still couldn't use directly.

I have no idea why I have such fond memories of that thing but I do.