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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are they wrong though? Unless the kid literally assembled his own PCBs, computers aren't that difficult.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In those days, PCs came with a crate of snall black connectors called jumpers, that you had to place in specific ways to arrange your IRQs and more.
Mainboard and BIOS settings were also not always configured with sane defaults, so it could be quite the puzzle.