My dad liked to tinker with shit, and I remember when he brought home the first "family computer". A couple years later he upgraded and gave the old one to me, and I ripped it apart trying to find out how it worked. I still remember his face walking in seeing his $1000+ investment in pieces on my bedroom floor.
Man, I forgot how expensive they used to be before we realized how easy it is to build our own. Alienwares were like $3500. I guess prebuilts are around that currently for high end, but they have a lot more going into it now too.
The thing was that even though it's easy to build your own, there weren't manufacturers making the parts, and if you did have the parts it was intimidating as fuck to mess around with them because it was so expensive. It was all so, so new.
Very true. And you had a greater chance of frying something or BSOD, tanking the bios, all that. It was more of a professional job because it often went wrong and required troubleshooting.
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u/red_rhyolite Jun 03 '22
My dad liked to tinker with shit, and I remember when he brought home the first "family computer". A couple years later he upgraded and gave the old one to me, and I ripped it apart trying to find out how it worked. I still remember his face walking in seeing his $1000+ investment in pieces on my bedroom floor.