how old were you when you did it for the first time?

[JacobM5727]

build a computer, that is


i want to start young and maybe get a job in it. how old was everyone when they made their first high speed love muffin

[AndreRIO]

i was 15-16 my first was a 386 dx
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[Hellmund]

My first was when I was doing work experience when I was about 15. I build a PII-450 for someone. The first machine I built for myself was a year later, a mighty celeron 400 with BF6.

[CMonster]

It was the eve of my 16th birthday, the year was 1975... oh wait, I'm confused, that was something else... they didn't have PCs back then.

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[jokostel]

when i was about 8 years old a amd 386dx 40....

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jokostel
viva amd!!

[NDC]

Many many moons ago! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[tonym]

From scratch (IC's, wire wrap, capacitors, etc.) when I was 16 years old, back before dirt. From off the shelf parts (mobos, ISA cards, etc.), when I was 32 (when the stuff became commercially available)!

Computers make you feel so old sometimes!!!!


Tony

[Kabuki]

15, my high school CS class built 12 386dx-40s for coding. Turned out to be more for gaming though.

[radbasa]

Let's see. That was way back when my dad brought home an Apple ][. 1983 I think, which puts me at 9 years old.

It came as a stock Apple ][ with SS/SD 5.25" floppy drives and controller. I later added 32K of RAM in the form of DIP chips. A Z80 board came later to run CP/M.

[club_med]

Im 22 and still in the process of gathering info in order to do so http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

cm.

[Barney]

The first time I 'put all the components in the case' was when I was 13 or just turned 14, when I bought a Pentium 100 + mobo, memory and videocard. Before that I already upgraded my 386 and 486 quite a few times (stuff like videocards, controllers, memory and processors) and fixed it when it was broken. More than once I had to take out the mainboard to be able to fix it. That stuff broke down even more than the hardware we have now.

I have always been the expert on hardware here and finding out how to 'jumper' mainboards. My brother is an expert on software, so together we would make the perfect team (if we didn't fight so much http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif ).

[prexaspes]

Ummm, a while ago. Anybody remember the 8088?

[charmler]

35 and doing it at least once a month.

[jaida]

I was 16

Built my p3 450 and abit be6 combo very fun but also a great learning experience http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[ragtop]

I was 37 (about a year and a half ago). I bought a cheap Pentium bare bones kit just to see if I could figure out how to put it together. Once I put that first one together, I just kept on upgrading and building faster machines, although I always stick with the "value machines" - (ie: Celerons & Durons)

Of course, when I was in college I had a Coleco Adam computer (anybody else remember those?? - it hooked up to a TV set, and actually used a cassette tape for storing data instead of a disk drive). I hooked up a 300 baud modem to it and was able to do my class work at home while everybody else had to fight over the crusty old terminals in the computer lab. Ahhhh - the good old days.

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[djurom]

About 16 years old (3 years ago) with my 486 DX2/66. That was my first overclock with that machine to 80MHz! I was so proud of myself. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[hawkeye177]

13 years old. I built a 1100Mhz amd.

[F4_Hunter]

Three years ago when I was twelve I think. My parents had given me $1,000 to get the ball rolling.

Here is its original specs:
PII 300MHz
64MB RAM
ATI All-in-Wonder Pro
32X CD-ROM
500MG HD (stolen from 486)
15" Monitor (also stolen from 486)
Way off brand Mobo

I used it in and upgraded form up till last summer http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[patrickp]

five months ago.
did know nothing about computers but wanted to build my own.
read two books,studied the posts here and asked stupid questions. sorry guys.but...
total success...
PIII800/815epro runs great
nice people here
pat
i'am 33

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[Timbob505]

Hmm...I guess it was about 3 years ago this summer sometime, I was 19. I went to Fry's and picked up a 300K6-2, a MSI mobo with an ALi chipset, 3.2 GB, 32MB, 24x CD, Graphics blaster Extreme (permedia2) and a 16 bit isa sound card...Wow that thing was cool then (for me) I got my brother's old Voodoo 1 when he got a Voodoo2. Upgraded it piece by piece until this spring when I sold it to my older brother as a 400 K6-2, TNT2Ultra, Montego2Quadzilla, 10GB, 128MB, 24x Cd. Hehehe....I ended up with a 900 tbird, Asus A7V, Live! Value, Negear fa310tx, 20GB, 56x CD, Radeon 64 vivo.....I like my current system now much better than my first, but there was nothing like the first time....brings a tear to my eye....


Timbob

[Overkill[TBP]]

The first comp I actually built for myself was a Cel500 with 512mb's ram and a voodoo3 about 3 years ago, but I've been jumping through the processors speed's ever since my first comp, went from 386DX to Cyrix 166 to Cel500 to 1.2gig Tbird Running 1.333

That 386 I got from my grandma and blew it up to convince my mom I needed a faster computer and then got the Cyrix 166mhz, and since then I've been building my own system. Up till this very day.

[wing7788]

Just about more than a year ago... I was just http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif years old.

[JacobM5727]

sounds good, its not to late to jump on that computer train i guess http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[batjeep]

Well not really any one age. But i got my own computer when i turned umm 17 (always had computers in the house Comador 64, apple IIgs, 286, pentium 100) but i got an AMD K6-2 300 like the week the k6-2 came out and then i added a modem, and ever since then i have upgraded it enough times to make 3 computers with the left over parts. (actually i did make one with some parts, the rest i put in my dads pc)
My PC evolved, and now the only thing ive left original is the floppy. (for sentimental value) (and i mean the only thing, new case, PS, mobo, ram EVERYTHING)

[MrBaseball]

Can't answer that since I havn't ever put a computer together. I've only upgraded different parts.

[Savant]

first computer I built was a 286 when I was about 11, I got a bunch of spare parts from my dads office (they had gotten 486 33's by then, WOW!) that was also the first one that was really mine, before that we had had one in the house since before I remember (ever since the Zylog Z-80)

[kite]

I first built my first computer a year ago i was 12-13 it was a amd450K6-2(didn't have the money for a better one) and it took me about 2 months for me to order all the parts and took me about 45min to put it together(I had some help and I knew just about everything on the motherboard)and I still have it and I'm using it right now(in the process of ordering more parts for another one)it is a intergrated video and audio mobo and I got a lot of the stuff for free. Thats when i first started to learn about computers or mostly. And I still like it other than that it is pretty slow I still have the 56k modem in it.

Kite

[RayH]

I built my first computer three years ago. I had a lot of misconceptions, but the thing worked anyway!

[Keegan]

I built my computer 1.4 years ago, on January 8th, 2000. I was 15. I'm still running on my first self-built computer.

[hallam2003]

hhmmm, when i was 11&12 I helped some friends build a few. when i was 14 i build my first one for myself, with my own money&lt;--that's when it really counts http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I'm (almost) 16 now, and I've tryied to build on about once a month, not all for myself though. Lukily i have some friends that arent smart enought to do, or so they think, and they like to play games, and have money, so they get new ones every few months. ehehehe

Hallam

[GroundZero3]

about 15 or 16 which makes about 3 years ago or 2. Built a 400 mhz celeron, 64mb of ram, Abit Bm6, 10 gig western digital hd, voodoo 3 3000, 56k generic modem (upgraded to cable modem) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif 24 x cdrom, and some crappy generic isa soundcard.

Jason

[Tekkitan]

i still havnt built one from scratch. i running a little low on money. hoping when i get money from selling my old house my mom will give me $1000 or so to build one. that would make me happy as can be! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[MiKe85]

13 years old was my first time http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[prttybean]

Ragtop-

I think I was either 11 or 12 when my dad gave me his Coleco. I did my first programming on that thing. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I haven't buit my own for home yet, (cash flow issues), but I've built a bunch at work starting about 2-1/2 yrs ago.

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[juniorp94]

Built my first from scratch computer january of this year. I was 24 at the time. I have been working on mine and other peoples computers such as upgrades since I was about 16.

[flea]

*flea hits flea with the cluebat

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[flea]

Not built from scratch yet, but over the past 8 months (16/17yrs) i have changed every internal component apart from a my hdd, fdd and put it all in a new case.

Jeez, not only did i double post but i missed out a word quite vital to the structure of the sentance.

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[marc666]

hmmmmm ok i hope this dosent give me away but do any of you guys remember back before windows when you use to stack the hard drive when 100 meg hd didnt use to get full back when you used DA5 to start your sys and Geoworks was the best graphic prog around????