I’ve been using Windows since the 3.1 days. Back then my desktop computer cost thousands of dollars. To convince my dad to make the purchase I had to promise that I’d somehow make it last through college — I wasn’t even out of Junior High School at the time. Before you laugh, that was back in the day when such a claim could actually be pulled off. Home computers were generally of the “desktop” variety back then — they sat on your desk and your huge CRT monitor sat on top of them. A few years later my friend’s dad showed me a ...