My very first was a Tortoise Shell Quilted top CE24. It had the wing tuners, HFS/VB pickups, the awful OG pickup rings that bent at the end of the fretboard....
I loved that guitar, but the A/C broke in my car. I sold it to fund the car repair. Luckily I was still young enough to gain more!
But, what I consider THE first PRS to get me on fan-boy wagon was my Scarlett Red 10-top Quilt, PLAYERS GRADE (other word for beat up, lol) Custom 22 that I got from Dave's Guitars.
It was chipped. Paint was missing from the bac of the neck. It had seen some action. THIS was the guitar for the longest time. The one that made me forgo other brands for quite a few years....
It's gone, and surprisingly I don't really miss it. The color? Yeah, I miss that, but the guitar itself - nah. Contrary to what many will truly believe here, I am equally as inspired and fulfilled by my current brood of SEs.