The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer

Which no doubt is why so many seemed to have such knee jerk reactions and never finished it. Much of it turned out to be a nice, nostalgic piece that painted a somewhat loving picture of early pc days, but I have to admit my knee jerked, too, at the Windows-is-an-ugly-clunky-crashing-mess but Mac’s-are-problem-free-utopias-of-perfection parts. (But any article that glibly compares installing Windows to descending into hell always gets my eyes rolling…)

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