Heh.. To this day, I still think those old 486s were the best built PCs ever!I didn't get my first personal computer (486-DX2-50, overclocked to 66) until I was in my early 20s, (around '94), I already had my engineering degree by then.
I used to work in the comic industry, coloring comic pages digitally. We used an obscure (now dead) vector-graph program on early X86 hardware and DOS. We used everything from 286 on through to 486, as they each became available. When the 486s came in they felt like an exceptional upgrade and frankly, after all these years, there have been very few times I felt that much of a "level-up" since.