The first computer I ever built myself was a disaster. It was 1994, I was 16, and I’d spent months saving up from my grocery store job to buy the components. I’d meticulously researched everything in Computer Shopper magazine—a massive phone-book-sized publication filled with tiny print advertisements from companies I’d never heard of, offering components at prices that seemed suspiciously cheap compared to the local computer store. After placing about a dozen separate orders and…
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