Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:19:30 05/23/04
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On May 23, 2004 at 12:57:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 23, 2004 at 11:43:14, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>On May 23, 2004 at 07:40:32, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>Did you get help from somebody in doing this task and I am not talking about >>>help in advise in the internet but about help in meeting persons who have some >>>experience in it or learning some special course that help you to do it? >>> >>>People that I talk with them are against the idea of buying the parts unless I >>>learn first how to do it or find somebody to help me with it before doing it. >>> >>>Uri >> >>It's not hard - but be prepared to spend a little bit of time. >> >>I built my first computer about a year ago, without any previous hardware >>experience. I'd guess it took around 10 hours of reading & internet research >>(some of it to try to understand the performance issues), and 5 hours or so of >>manual work. >> >>Repeating the procedure recently - not more than 5 hours total, for two >>computers. >> >>Vas > >I do not like to do something against all the people around me so I decided that >at this point that I am not going to spend a lot of money about hardware. > >I thought first to build a cheap computer for less than 200$ and only later >continue to build more expensive computer but the person who I talked with him >suggest that first thing I try to build some old computer that he already has >when I get the parts of it and if I can do it I will continue to the next step. > >I said that I will think about it and I suspect that it is possible that it may >be harder because when I choose relevant parts of the computer that I plan to >buy I already can choose them in a way that it is easier to build it. > >Another problem is that it is possible that there are better instructions for >the parts that people here can suggest me to buy than the instructions for parts >of some old computer so the task may be harder inspite of the advantage of being >able to see the process of getting the parts from the original old computer. > >Uri I will probably try first with some old computer and I plan to try tomorrow. The person that I talk with him tells me that seeing how the computer is built is better than every instruction that I can get and I can write everything before I do it and that the old computers are not more complicated then new computer that I can choose and only the opposite can be correct. Uri
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