You are a few years older. My first PC was an Apple IIc in 1984, cost $2400 with Printer and Monitor. Didn’t have a hard drive or RAM, started with a 5 1/4 floppy and had to save everything on the floppies. Incredible. Used a 286 laptop at my law firm around 87, switched to a 386 early 90s. It was all DOS back then. Hated using it.
The Mac laptop I got in 93 was amazing in comparison. Color, it talked, was customizable, graphic UI, had features that Windoze didn’t get til Win 98SE or Win 2000. I ran my whole office on that laptop. Word Processing, accounting, bills, calendar I bought a PC for the kids in 1999 because all the kids games and software was PC. By then, PCs were usable, barely. I’ve had both ever since. Apple was tanking without Jobs, and PCs had good new hardware and software, so it became a better option in the 2000s. Plus they were cheaper. I went back to Macs in 2008, but I still have both and switch back and forth, depending on software and other factors.
I enjoy hearing how you broke Win98. MS really was evil. They stole the features of every company and put it in the OS. The biggest one to lose out was Netscape. They created the browser, and MS took the benefit of it away from them. Lots of companies, same thing.
The FR talent\experience, just on these “Q” threads is mind-blowing amazing.
Win98lite still has a web presence. https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html.