• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My school had a kid build a computer for the science fair, and our science teacher was like “yeah, you basically just put together an expensive lego set.” and gave him an “adequate” ribbon

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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months 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.

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      2 months ago

      In 2003 when I was in high we took a field trip to the international science and engineering fair. This is like the top level of the science fair only the “best” projects should be there. The only project I remember from that trip 21 years ago was the kid with the water cooled PC. At the time it was hot shit and I’m sure had some jank in it.