Windows 98 is like a warm blanket around the shoulder and cup of hot coco. Ahhhh 
Pleasent memories
My first computer had less memory they modern gamin systems. Raied with a Commadore 64 and Apple IIe at school. LONG LIVE Oregon Trail!
Our CURRENT main accounting/inv software runs off FoxPro, so I can identify.
I run my involuntary Windows 10 as an XP-mimic.
To join in on the retro computer conversation, I love DOS and enjoyed playing Prince of Persia.
To make some menus easier to find there is a neat God Mode shortcut you can add to your desktop.
Create a New Folder anywhere on your desktop and when the (New Folder) highlighted name appears change it to: God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
After you hit enter it becomes this icon
and opens a long list of many options.
Yep, this is a thing!
Ah Oregon Trail on an Apple shaped like a box!
Yeah, I think my list of favorites were: 95, 98, XP and 7. Me was an abomination that never shouldâve been allowed out of the test environment.
Well we all know that Amazon clearly took the Microsoft mantra to heart: Make people go to at least 4 different places to check out problems or make changes, donât tell people what the problem is, and make useless and unneeded changes to interfaces and programs.
I play Civ3 but have to run it through Steam now.
I did enjoy the original SimCity back in the day but never played the Civ series. I loved the baba yetu song from one of the newer versions of Civ.
Atari 130XE was my first personal computer.
Had a PET computer at school and friends had the Commodore 64.
Later, I was given a Vic20 with the cassette tape drive.
my first computer started of a floppy disk 
I can believe it, even though running Win10 on this machine.
I remember the days of âdumb terminalsâ; to actually do anything, you had to connect to a mainframe (basically, the old term for âcloudâ). Then along came PCs, and it was (correctly) touted as being great, because you could now work on your own, without having to be connected.
Now weâve moved back in the other direction; on Win10, you canât even play Solitaire unless you are connected to the mainframe, er, âCloudâ, and everything Iâve heard about 11 is that itâs even more demanding.
And I thought it was bad when my phone couldnât connect with my FitBit unless I had a wi-fi connectionâŠ
At least from the user viewpoint (not considering kernel security, etc.), XP was pretty near perfect. Win7 was a good upgrade to improve connectivity options that simply were in their infancy, if they even existed, when XP was created.
Anything since Win7 seems to be moving backwards, with more emphasis being on keeping programmers employed than in giving users any real benefit.
So you are what many of us would call a ânoobâ.
My first computer used cassette tapes. I added a floppy drive later (cost, IIRC, about $450). Had to add an expansion chassis to use both the floppy drive and a modem at the same time (1200 baud modem, 92K floppy; punch a hole in the side so that you can turn it around and use the other side to save money).
When I finally got a Windows machine, I never upgraded to Win 3.1.11; just stuck with 3.1.0.
OMG, I was just gonna say that! Not to mention DOOM⊠nice times 
In the windows world I followed this path
Windows 3.1
Windows NT
Windows XP
Windows 10.
Win 95 AND 98 were trash. Not that Win 3.1 was any better, but at Win NT there was a real O/S designed by a truly experienced developer, my old colleague Dave Cutler, who built DECâs RSX11a, RSX11M and VAX/VMS.
Someone would spec a GUI and software interfaces, and Dave would design fast and reliable plumbing to underpin it.
It differs from anything built since because one person could understand the entire design, even if many were needed to build it.
I see the signs that I will be forced to upgrade from Win 10 with every update. It gets slower and slower. But I keep old machines running as special purpose workstations running old versions of software..
In Portsmouth we have 6 machines running for two people. One more than a month ago, when I added a third laptop as a second scanner station for a A4 scanner. (It is on Win7 because there is no reason to install anything else).
In Maine we have only 3 computers running, but are doing limited work there.
My previous computer had Windows 8 and died November 2022, conveniently in time for the holiday season.
New (current) laptop had Windows 10 installed, with free upgrade for Windows 11. Software guru friend told me to upgrade to 11 immediately, calling 10 a bug-infested abomination. I donât like all the changes from 8, but I learned to use what was needed.
Memories:
In the mid-1970s, BF took me to the uni computer lab after-hours to play Star Trek, just different colored ^ arrows representing Star Fleet and Klingon ships. You could turn the arrows in any direction and advance them to blow up Klingon ships if you werenât blown up first.
He went on to program Cray computers, giant machines that filled an entire room. To this day, he says â⊠but when I programmed CrayâŠâ whenever he canât figure out Windows 10 (his laptop).
My first computer was 2001 or 2002 running XP. What annoys me the most is when upgrades make my peripheral hardware incompatible. This last change axed both my old Photoshop software and Wacom/Bamboo tablet.
I had many different computers from dumpster diving in silicon valley. I loved going through apples dumpsters but they eventually put locks on them due to people throwing stuff out and not putting it back in. I could go through dumpsters and put stuff together and sell it at the San Jose flea market on the weekend and make some big $$$. I still keep a bone yard of old computers to keep my old dinosaurs running.
YSK: Windows 11 sends telemetry data straight to third parties on install.
SimCity & Civilizations both great! Other Golden Oldies included:
- Darklands
- AR The City
- Yâs
- Sid Meiers Pirates!
- Castles
- Zork
- Microsoft Adventure (Colossal Cave / ADVENT, for the ones who know/remember teletype ARPANET, CP/M and BSD/UNIX)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
My first computer was a TI-99/4A, followed by an Osborne OCC1 then Osborne Executive, then the IBM PC 5160, and an Amstrad PPC-640 (All still working except for the OCC1, which died in December⊠hoping I can fix it, if I can find the time and partsâŠ)
The TI-99/4A had ROM cartridges and magnetic cassette (floppy drives became available later for a vast sum of money)âŠ
You missed out on all the joy of âForward CASSETTE to counter 73 and then press ENTER and then the PLAY on the CASSETTEâ, âpress STOP on the CASSETTE nowâ, âFile not found, forward CASSETTEââŠ
Windows 10 was/is solid, in fact all of Microsoftâs OSs were solid. Often the issue was with manufacturers not having well written drivers and or third-party software that failed. All of the Microsoft Surface devices (as mentioned by @Pepper_Thine_Angus) have been rock solid running their intended flavor of Windows, while third party manufactured devices have had mixed results. The same can also be said of the various Linux Kernels.
PC-DOS was good enough, until PC/MS-DOS 3.3, which was a rock. (Windows 3.xx was not an operating system, but more of a graphical interface wrapper around DOS with special elevated privileges usually reserved for users well versed in DEBUG/Assembly). Personally, Iâm really enjoying Windows 11 with WSL 2, and PowerShell.
I have two TI-99.
99/4âs, or 99/4Aâs
Iâve heard that the original 99âs keyboards sucked.
Fun fact, the TI99/4 & 4Aâs were the first 16-bit home computers. The modern PC (IBM PC 5150) two years after the 4A and four years after the original 99/4 in 1981, was equipped with Intelâs 8088. While technically a 16 bit processor the chip only had an 8 bit bus. So it wasnât until 1984 with IBMâs AT 5170 that the PC was truly 16 bit.
Quite possible that being first, was a major contributing factor to the eventual failure of the TI-99/4A in 1983.