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Alternative doesn't mean good...

I was browsing my collection of ancient software that I lug around when I came across something that I'd nearly completely forgotten about.... Windes Me. Windes Millennium Edition. This was back in the early 2000s, the naughts.  I was starting to get the reputation as 'that guy' when it came to old hardware.  Somewhat deserved because I would haunt the thrift stores in Chicago (of which there were many) in search of cheap computers I could play with and try to learn from.  I would also scour places to find good copies of older software. This lead to me being gifted an ancient Tandy 286 computer.  It had I think 4mb of ram?  And a hard disk of something like 20mbs?  I had no idea what to do with it but as it was gifted me by a family friend of my Mother's I couldn't just reject it.  It was already there for me to take and of course my parents didn't want it cluttering up their place either... So there I was with this machine that really wasn't strong en...