Haven’t watched the video, but isn’t that what most small computer shops do to this day?
I was about to reply with https://pcpartpicker.com/
But actually they mean on the chip level - and interview a guy who made whole clone machines himself including his own motherboards
Wow, that’s impressive! It’s a shame such a cool skill is not really needed nowadays where everything is either standardized or there are a few models.
This was also in the US up until at least 2000. There were frequent Computer Show and Sales held at fairgrounds. Hundreds of vendors each selling different components you’d mix and match.
I was coming here to say this. Before NewEgg, the best way to buy computer parts was to show up at a conventions center or fairgrounds, firehall or community college for the next Computer Show. Buy some parts in cash from people who speak barely any English and then either take it all home and start assembling or hand it off to the ancient guy chain-smoking at the back door and pay him to zip-tie it together in 5 minutes for you.
Years and years of doing this and we only had one situation when we cracked the case later and found out the guy has swapped the parts we bought for used Dell components when we were at lunch. Always took them home after that.
God those were fun! And if you wanted to play with older tech, you got rock-bottom prices.
Lol no computer shopper was the way.
I remember magazines from the 80s where you could find code in BASIC for some little game. It’s how I learned how to program as a kid.
Yes! Basic Training in 3-2-1 Contact.
I remember typing a whole afternoon with a friend just so the screen did alternate colors, it was so underwhelming I think that killed any spark that I might have had for programming.
I didn’t even have a color monitor :'( I would’ve been jealous of yours.
I almost quit programming too when my brother walked in one day as I was feverishly typing. “What? You’re programming basic? That’s for losers.” Then he whips up a ski slalom game in a single incomprehensible line of apl and I was like wtaf?
Today I’m a professional dev and my bro is a perl hacker. I still can’t understand a line of his code.
Some people are built different.
Oh god, don’t make any typos or you were going from screen to page, page to screen, over and over and over…
Now, if you want to build a fairly beefy PC, I have to pay super ridiculous prices. A lot of chips are no longer made here and most things like graphics cards are a niche product costing a ton (especially with how the yen is doing lately). When I built this PC in 2016ish, it was cheaper to eat the exchange rate and the import duties to import some things from the US (NewEgg at the time).
the parts are cheap, the prices are low
Can do this today in India
