first computer i made i was taught how to make it from scratch ,literally from scratch I built my first computer i was a kid around 16 at the time. going around the collage in my town dumpster picking, resistors transistors every Electronic Component grab my hands on. i was in my first year in high school at the time, and old guy must of been in his late 40s did all the computer repairs in the school taught me the old way of making computers . first computer i made had from chip to chip had the power of a computer compared to something from 2011. i built it back in 96.i upgraded it 7 times in it life time, there was more wire in that computer then a landline box in the corner of the street.