To broaden his interests, he decided to purchase an Apple computer when he was fifteen. Oddly, his curiosity was not in learning the computer or wondering how it worked. On the contrary he was intrigued by its instrumentation. Specifically, he wondered how the computer was made and assembled. Dell wanted to see how the parts fit together to work as a computer. Once he understood the mechanism, he was ready to take his knowledge, and seize an opportunity. That came when he was in college.