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Build your own computer
Dec. 13th, 2024 06:13 pmI have a friend who is building their own computer, as guided by the website Logical Increments, which has a beautiful colorful chart of compatible parts to build many different levels of computers, from Destitute ($279) through Modest up to Superb and all the way to Extremist and Monstrous ($3786). (I thought I posted this link before, but didn't find it in a search.)
When I was a kid, my dad built a stereo receiver from a HeathKit, and sometimes he let me bring the solder to the tip of the solder gun as he held it. I loved watching the shiny solder form a new sealed connection around the wires. I wanted to get a HeathKit computer and build it, but he never agreed. As I look back, it might have been far too complex a project for me, but it would have been cool once I was done.
These days, I'm happy with my sealed MacBook Pro and have no desire to put my own set of parts together, much less solder the wires myself, but I admire my friend for doing it. They don't even have a technical background, but they're solidly good at figuring things out and making them work.
When I was a kid, my dad built a stereo receiver from a HeathKit, and sometimes he let me bring the solder to the tip of the solder gun as he held it. I loved watching the shiny solder form a new sealed connection around the wires. I wanted to get a HeathKit computer and build it, but he never agreed. As I look back, it might have been far too complex a project for me, but it would have been cool once I was done.
These days, I'm happy with my sealed MacBook Pro and have no desire to put my own set of parts together, much less solder the wires myself, but I admire my friend for doing it. They don't even have a technical background, but they're solidly good at figuring things out and making them work.
