I never did own a NES, we went from Atari 800XL, to Sega Master System, to Genesis to Atari Mega STe, then my older brother bought his friend's A500 when he had switched to a Windows 95 system. Then we also got a crappy windows 95 system that I was constantly fighting to get sound or modem working...
On the subject of Pieces of Crap, I've been combating an IRQ conflict on my Winblows XP machine today after purchasing a sound card.