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Old 2012-10-13, 21:09   Link #147
Dr. Casey
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 36
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Originally Posted by Kamui04 View Post
Lol that some kid get interested in something at an early age isn't uncommon. I was playing with old school Meccano at 3. And at 6 y/o I had an Atari and Commodore computers, back then you had to program your own games or copy code from magazines, in which many cases you ended up correcting for printed mistakes or although it was the same language, Basic, there were differences from brand to brand or model to model.


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For my part, I actually built my first computer when I was 13 months old. It was rather simple and couldn't do much besides send email and browse newsgroups, but it does prove that building a computer at the age of six is very possible.
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