you mean cd burners?
I had an 8x creAtive cd burner, cost nearly $300 o.O
first double speed cd-rom drive my old man bought me, came with a 16bit creative sound card, was $540.
you couldn't write cd's back then!
My first computer was an old P-II running DOS. Jungle Jill ftw! Then we got a P4 celeron and started playing doom...
my first 'ibm comatible' pc was a 486 SX25 which had turbo boost to 33mhz. i never understood why you couldn't just run it at 33 all the time, or if the turbo boost was complete bs. it had a 250mb hard drive, 4gb of ram and a 256kb video card.
it ran doom pretty well actually, but it couldn't run doom 2. i was learning autocad at school at the time (v10, in dos) and i found a copy of it on a bbs and downloaded it (1 x 1.44mb disk), i couldn't however run autocad either, as it required the cpu to have a maths co-processor, which the 486 sx chips didn't have, so i went on the hunt for a dx chip.
i found myself a 486 DX-2 66 for $50. i didn't even think about motherboard compatibility, didn't realise it was an issue. luckily it wasn't.. i swapped it in (no heat sinks back then!) and away i went.
not only could i use my pirated autocad v10 at home, but i could also play doom 2.
absolute fucking winner!
my first computer however, was an Amstrad CPC 6128, 4mhz cpu and 128kb of RAM, complete with a 3" floppy disk built into the keyboard and a colour screen! i felt so much cooler than my uncle cause he had the CPC 464 with the tape deck in the keyboard.