First console was the SNES, and still my favorite today. Good times.
As for my first computer.. It was just some HP PC I believe. Had Windows Millenium Edition on it. Ahaha..

My first computer was a Commodore 64, then an Amiga 500, then a PC. My first console was the PS2 I bought for my son about three years ago.

First proper computer was the C64. Complete with massive floppy drive which I got from my cousin. First console was the SNES, which despite loving, proved to be my last.

First console was the good old NES. The first two video games I ever played were Super Mario Brothers and... Top Gun.
First computer... I'm not totally sure. That would have been a hand-me-down from my mother, so it would have been the late 80s or early 90s. It was most likely either a 286 or 386, with a monochrome monitor (I was really excited when I finally upgraded to color). I used to play games like Word Rescue and Duke Nukem on that thing all the time. I also spent a lot of time on my mother's machine crawling BBSs for shareware.
When I was very young, I remember that my mother had some DOS machine with a Hercules black-and-orange display. I never really messed with that thing, though.
I never had any friends who were really into computer games. Many of them played computer games - I remember playing games like Duke 3D and Warcraft 2 with friends back in middle school - but they were all mostly console gamers. I loved both PC and console games equally, though nowadays I no longer own a console (the PS2 was my last). I still don't know anyone personally who shares my fanatical devotion to PC gaming as a hobby.

I had a Pentium III computer that my dad bought back in 2000. I enjoyed on that computer playing games like Unreal Tournament (my very first game).
I also had a PlayStation One back in 2001.
So yeah, I grew up with computers rather than consoles, but I like them both.

Wow, you people are some real old-schoolers! Makes me feel so young, I wasn't even born when some of you got your first consoles or whatever they were called back then (the oldest are probably computers, not gaming consoles). My first gaming platform was PS1 and I was a little kid when I got it. It was an awesome console, the best I've ever had. It's such a shame that I never got it back when I borrowed it to a friend of mine, it's been lost for a long time now.

Dunno, it was some thing the size of a small nation, that could barely play Doom on the low-res graphics. We mostly used DOS, but had Windows 3.11 installed

My first computer was C-64. A classic.
First console was first playstation.

My first console was a Videopac a long long time ago.
My first computer was a C64 some years later.

I seem to be slightly unusual here - my first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464. The 4 stood for tape drive, and the 64 stood for 64k of Ram. It was pretty much the same as a C64. A bit later we (the family) got an Amstrad CPC 6128 (Disk drive! 128Kb of Ram!).
I also remember, several years later, getting a 512Mb hard drive for whatever computer we had. It was enormous! It could almost hold an entire CD!

My first console was the Atari VCS, the original one with the wooden trim and the two joysticks and two paddle controllers, not the repackaged black plastic one.
First computer was a Commodore ViC-20 3.5k of RAM, wow, the POWER. :)
Next computer was a 48k Sinclair Spectrum Plus.
After that was a Spectrum Plus 2. It had something approaching a decent keyboard.
First 16 bit was an Atari ST 520FM, later had a 512mb ram pack on it.
First PC was an Escom (now defunct German company) built 486SX-25 with 2mb of RAM and a 203mb hard drive, a 14in CRT monitor and a single 3.5 inch floppy drive, NO CD-ROM until later.
God, I feel old.......
Now I own a Dell Inspiron 520 with Intel Quad Core Q660, 2gb of Ram, not overly powerful I know, but I'm looking to upgrade it.
I also own a PS3 and Xbox 360.

My first computer computer ran DOS. I was very young so I don't remember anything beyond that.
First console was the NES.

Aye, mine ran Dos 5, the version that had Dosshell, the first attempt Dos had at a GUI. It also came packaged with Windows 3.1.
BTW, I've actually seen Windows 1 functioning, it wasn't pretty. :)

CPU: 80486SX operating at 33 MHz
RAM: 4 MB (later upgraded to 8 MB)
Drives:
3 1/2" FDD (1.44 MB and 720 KB)
5 1/4" FDD (1.2 MB and 360 KB)
100 MB IDE hard drive
8x Creative CD-ROM drive (was an upgrade)
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster 16 PnP ISA card (was an upgrade which came with the CD-ROM drive among other things)
Video: 512KB Trident card
OS: MS-DOS 6.21 and Windows 3.1
First Console: SEGA Genesis. Woo woo.

Oh I've had other consoles. First one bar the Atari was the Playstation, then the PS2, the Xbox. A cheap used Dreamcast which I got solely for the Shenmue games and the Skies of Arcadia. I briefly had a Gamecube (again used).
Anyone else think the Dreamcast was an underrated console? I personally think it came out at an unfortunate time where a lot of people were holding off for the PS2.
And Cy-Fox, my first GPU on my Escom machine was an Oak card, FEEL THE POWER. :)
God I remember when Cirrus Logic cards were decent and my mate bought a Matrox Millenium thinking it was basically 'the shit'.