In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.
I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.