I think you have a typo there. I was playing with NT (forerunner of Windows) and Windows 1 in the mid-1980s, soon after the Apple Mac came out and Microsoft copied the code. I later became an NT & Windows server admin in the early 1990s. Anyway, I still have bundles of those floppy disks and hated installing Windows, a painful experience (then there were all the OS updates to apply after the install).
New technology is like that, with hurdles to get over until the technology improves. What comes to mind, are the cranks people had to insert into cars in order to start their ICE engines (still present in some makes into the 1950s). My dad had problems with his first car, a Model T, and often had to do repairs on the side of the road. First adopters always hear "it'll never catch on".
I'm pretty sure my timeline is correct on Windows 3.1. It came out in 1992, right about the time I got my first IBM PC. It was a 386 that ran on DOS and I remember having to get a math co-processor just to run Windows.
Around that time, I got a 129MB hard drive to go with the 80MB I already had and I thought I was on top of the world.
Yes, MB, not GB!
I also built my own PCs back in the day. I would get the Chassis w/power supply and outfit it with my preference of motherboard, video card, RAM, hard drives and other extension cards. Those were good times.
I know that IBM personal computers first came out in 1981 and the Apple PC a few years before that even.