I got into computers when I was 13 years old.  My dad got me a Packard Bell 386sx/16 for Christmas and the first thing I did was take it apart and disassemble it all over my floor.  When I put it back together it didn’t work.  I was first scared thinking I just broke a two thousand computer and my dad was going to kill me.  Anyways I got it working and then I ended up doing running this command format c: on the hard drive and ended up wiping out the MS DOS operating system.  I had no idea what I did I was just very curious how this machine worked.  After I got things working and figured out what an operating system was and how to load it back on my main focus was to start learning operating systems so I could master them.  I figured if I started mastering operating systems I could trouble shoot pretty much anything.