I kinda relived parts of my own childhood with the story. Funnily written for childhood memoirs :)

In my case the magical Windows version was Windows 95 Final Beta (AKA Chicago), which I managed to get through my fathers connections. Oh boy it was exciting for a fouth-grader to install it and figure out what went wrong etc.

(Although I strongly was in the OS/2 and Mac camps at the time;-)