yeah, it's a little bittersweet to see the adulation this is getting; I hope he has success in his academics and career, I got my first computer by dumpster diving parts.
Hits close to home. Apart from what was a family PC (terribly cheap), my main rig for a time was assembled via old junk the computer lab at school was done with but wasn't valuable enough (or fully functional) to say no when I asked if I could have it.
