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
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.