We didn’t have computers we could have at home yet (ZX-81 was just coming out).

• We didn’t have computers we could have at home yet (ZX-81 was just coming out).
• I got electronic kits where I could wire circuits that would do things, but I mostly didn’t know why or how (I was 10 to 12)
• It’s only may years later in university that I learned the theory behind circuits, which relied on differential equations.
• It was inconvenient and relatively expensive to have to walk and take the subway for over an hour to go buy electronic components I was missing or burnt

When I was a kid, I started learning electronics first