I grew up with a Commodore 64 and 128. When I had finally saved enough allowance money for an Amiga, my father bribed me by paying for a 30MB hard drive but only if I'd buy a PC instead so that he could run LaTeX on it.[0]. It was a slow 8088 with a monochrome Hercules video card.

What a mistake...

It took years before PCs were able to match the graphics of the Amiga.

[0] It could take 15 minutes to render pretty pedestrian paper on that machine, but many highschool projects were created on that machine, and printed out on his work's LaserWriter.