What age where you when you learned how to build a computer?

I personally learned how to build a computer last year when I was 13. How about you guys?

lol
i got my 1st pc when i was 16

Going to look for a pic of that IBM right now.... Can't find it, but it was this Blue and red colored massive table with the Grey Mono chrome monitor built into the table top at an angle itself. The Floppy Drives used to be vertically mounted inside that table....
So after the BBC micro this was the next rig that I dis-assembled and reassembled...
Of course to the delight of all the teachers at school since the rig had never been used since the day it has been bought.... or it just never came on...

My first OC when I was 12 and at the age of 13 I build a PC. That feeling was so amazing!

After all this searching I finally had to get to a museum online for rigs and that's where I found something that was my first re-assembled and repaired experiment....
My God!!! I feel Ancient....

this is what it looked like....

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ [...] _4017.html

The specs are interesting
Date Introduced
1975
Photographer
Richards, Mark
Dimensions
overall: 37 3/4 in x 70 3/8 in x 34 1/4 in
Manufacturer
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Seimas, Ferrara Enterprises LLC
Copyright Owner
© Mark Richards
Object ID
102711734p
Speed
~10,000 adds/sec
Memory Type
Semiconductor
Memory Size
16K bytes
Memory Width
16-bit
Cost
$33,100

And this was in 1986....when I was fooling with that thing...lol
Unbelievable...
Here is where I found it
http://www.computerhistory.org/rev [...] ers/11/404

I don't remember if people then built there own rigs, but, I do know it wasn't easy to get your hands on a computer then.
I remember being this eager kid, cycling 25kms to a bunch of bachelor teachers who had a few BBC Micro Computers on them , with B/W Teles attached to them, and they'd allow me to work on them every Sunday the whole day, sitting and programming in BASIC then....
From then, I can't remember a single one of my classmates who had a computer, forget a PC..... PC's came here in 87-88.... that was the IBM PC, I think it was called the the peanut or something. They had..... WOW green Mono Chromes on them... and that was worth ogling at, I guess. then....

My mistake....I was 11 then.... in 1986... not 14

Wow this is what they looked like






Specs:
Motherboard----223,000 Issue 1
CPU---------------Rockwell R6502AP
CPU Clock------- 2MHz
RAM---------------32KB
ROM---------------32MB (16KB + 16KB sideway ROM)
OS-----------------1.20 (GOS Iss.1)

I built 10+ servers at 19, first PC at 20.

I believe i was nine, tearing apart some "desktops" with two 5.25 floppys. One for boot the other for the rest. Still worked with 8 Inches "floppy". Ah, the good old days. 1987-88 if i recall correctly. Summer of 88. Really cool. Learn DOS and batch scripting. A bit I know alot more now !!