PC building is more fun when you have no idea what you’re doing
A strange little hacker gadget reminded me that confusion, failure, and experimentation were always the best parts of building computers. Credit: PCWorld I don’t know about you, but the whole reason I got into upgrading and building PCs is because I wanted to play Doom II. My age hadn’t hit double digits by the time the game shipped on DOS in ’94, but a year or two later I got my hands on a copy and realized our old family PC didn’t have the chops to run id’s latest.
- ▪A strange little hacker gadget reminded me that confusion, failure, and experimentation were always the best parts of building computers.
- ▪Credit: PCWorld I don’t know about you, but the whole reason I got into upgrading and building PCs is because I wanted to play Doom II.
- ▪My age hadn’t hit double digits by the time the game shipped on DOS in ’94, but a year or two later I got my hands on a copy and realized our old family PC didn’t have the chops to run id’s latest.
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| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:15:00 +0000 |
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A strange little hacker gadget reminded me that confusion, failure, and experimentation were always the best parts of building computers. Credit: PCWorld I don’t know about you, but the whole reason I got into upgrading and building PCs is because I wanted to play Doom II. My age hadn’t hit double digits by the time the game shipped on DOS in ’94, but a year or two later I got my hands on a copy and realized our old family PC didn’t have the chops to run id’s latest. Thus began my 30+ years of PC enthusiasm, starting with me getting frustrated by memory management (death to HIMEM) and leading me here as a PCWorld veteran who can work a screwdriver and a solder gun almost as well as anyone. And hey, I only nearly electrocuted a coworker with a badly soldered power cable once.
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