Got my new computer built and running!

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6. Working on computers is so easy these days!

My husband and I taught ourselves how to work on computers when we were given old family computers that ranged from 286s to 486s. With the 286 machine you had to tell the BIOS where to park the hard drive heads.

We refurbished about twenty old computers and gave them to people who had none.

Now, it's more like Legos - plug parts together and that's it. The hardest part is making sure that the parts are compatible - but there are resources to check. PCPartsPicker.com is one, plus they will give you suggestions where to buy.

But since it'd been so long, I watched some YouTube videos to catch up on the technology. I used Belarc Advisor to check what I had on the old computer so I wouldn't forget any "essential" programs. Since I have been using data drives to store all my program output, rather than where Windows wants to put stuff, I didn't have to worry about losing anything when I transferred computers, just transferred the drives.

The three weeks waiting on the NewEgg refund was not wasted!