[Morpheus2009]

Custom building is really common among the younger generations. Plenty of college students do it. As a now 30 something I enjoyed doing it in high school and college, helped me understand a lot about the hardware and the operating system.

[Star Traveler]

My experience in that was with a special "computer system" back in 1966 that my high school had, which had no monitor (only red lights for register contents), no hard drive or floppy (only punched paper tape to save programming) and only using 1s and 0s (requiring us to even program it to multiply and divide), and making up our own mnemonic programming language, on the fly. That's all that was out there

I just want to use today's devices now ... :-) ...

My old input device ...