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My schools had this growing up. The old single button Macs(I remember this game too).
We didn’t have a computer in our house until I was ~8. It was blistering quick 400Mhz machine running windows…(Good ol’ slot load processors).
But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.
I work in the tech industry and I’ve had windows boxes, and even a few MacBook pros for work. We deploy stuff to Linux and windows. I have dual Xeon servers running Linux in the basement.
Same here, I learned by fucking it up and doing it until it worked.
For the most part I got it right in one go with one notable exception. I even had a 2 disc raid 0 array working(this was still the day of loading raid drivers via floppy disc at OS install). Everything was going great until I booted a game. Then the whole thing shut off.
Pentium 4’s were one of the first to move to the 12v rail and I didn’t understand the sticker on the PSU at the time. I had a PSU for a Pentium 3 and it lacked the amps on the 12v rail. So once the gpu fired up as well…poof. Swapped out the PSU with an P4 compatible one and all was good again.
I’ll put an edit in…now I’m building stuff like this. I’ll mention this is a work in progress in the photo. Some wiring is temporary(too short) and it’s doing a 24 hour bleed down/leak test which is what the gauge is for.
Ah, I once literally burned a motherboard with an overheated CPU, as in the machine turned off when the mobo was black, smelly and bendy and something finally came loose.
That day, I learned the important lesson of having the store install the CPU for me, got a complete replacement for it too.
That game was super fun