I agree with Neil's observations. I only go back to Win97 on a PC and as was said, there were some good operating systems and some not good from Microsoft. OTOH, with my first Apple IIe, where you had to load the OS each time by means of a floppy disc, it still works - in it's quite humble way. The green screen and the printer as well, except no one sells ink for the printer for the last 30 or so years.
A side note, my daughter, on her own, while in second grade long before kids knew much if anything about computers, learned how to operate the Apple IIe - without a manual. She, during the middle of the night, quietly slipped downstairs and started "making it work". She goofed one time while watching me work with it and told me there was a better way to do something that I hadn't thought of. Her "cover" had been compromised.
BTW, when Radio Shack first had a limited amount of computers to sell, their marketing people "convinced" management on the idea that if the public didn't buy these computers, they would just use them in their own stores to help with inventory control. Little did they know of the future outcome of that "plan". (That's way back when Radio Shack had some real good stuff to sell. It was a haven for ham operators and even broadcasters).
I bought many PC's over time and none of the old ones are around because for one reason or another, they stopped working and were not repairable. Then there's the incompatibility of 3rd party PC cards and components that has been a pain (you know where),
I still run both platforms for various tasks and various reasons, but for Hauptwerk, there's (for me) only one choice which is of course a Mac. "You gets what you pays for" to quote one of my old college profs. I wish the same philosophy would exist for cars.
Rgds,
Ed