Just emotionally... For example my 286 wouldn't run a game which required a 386 🤣

Ryccardo wrote on 2023-03-05, 00:04:

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Around 2013 the battery on my early 2011 Macbookpro8,1 inflated, which actually bent out a corner of the all-metal case;
I noticed that when, surfing the web in bed at about 1 AM with school the following morning and deciding to call it a night, I folded the screen and dragged the computer up my thigh with a funny feeling, which actually was a decent cut...
The computer spent that night on the window sill 😀

And of course I bet no desktop enthusiast hasn't sliced at least one finger in an ordinary metal case!

So, were you ever hurt, physically or otherwise, by a computer?

The occasional scrapes here and there. If the computer hurt me its because of my fault.

I reckon I've come close to an eye injury thanks to an exploding tantalum. Thankfully not yet though.

At work I would be wearing safety glasses all day. At home, I've learned to at least turn my head when powering on old boards.

Pierre32 wrote on 2023-03-05, 01:01:

I reckon I've come close to an eye injury thanks to an exploding tantalum. Thankfully not yet though.

At work I would be wearing safety glasses all day. At home, I've learned to at least turn my head when powering on old boards.

Indeed. A couple of times... now I turn the head and put my hand over the board.

Yes, and more times than I can count... The most recent one was my main PC where I managed to hit a heatsink right with my elbow... Hitting the proverbial funny bone already hurts, but doing so on a Noctua NH-U12... That's a lot worse with all the tiny fins

Getting hurt was par for the course when building computers back in the day. Sharp edges on the cases and if you didn't end up with a few cuts, you weren't doing it right.

Also been cut and scratched by through hole components.

The worst so far was when I was scrapping a HDD years ago. The top cover had a hole with a sticker over it that also held in a metal disc. I pushed it out with my thumb.

When it popped out, I sliced my thumb really bad/deep because the edge of the hole was extremely sharp.

I still have nerve damage in that thumb.

I took a deskpro to the knee.....

Last week, just above the knee, lifting off the machine above it, and I think, damn this is a chonker.... because it's feet went goopy and stuck to the deskpro, so I'm lifting both... until the goop parted, halfway off the stack and it slammed into my knee and I had to hold it there, because what monster lets a vintage PC hit the floor, even if it deserves it.

the monitors shock me when i touch them ouch!!!

Not sure if it counts, but on the 4th of July a few years ago, I sliced my thumb on a broken graphics card when I was destroying it for fun.
I tried to throw it across my driveway, but a piece of the heatsink caught my thumb & cut it quite severely. The scar was still there for about 4 months after.
Since then, I haven't done anything involving metal without cut resistant gloves on.

a few times - mostly hand and lower arm minor abrasions, some older PCs are heavy enough that even without dropping them they can dig in with their corners etc

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-03-05, 04:46:

I took a deskpro to the knee.....

😀 That made me laugh!

a psu popped right next to my face. only psychological pain with that one

gerry wrote on 2023-03-05, 19:49:

a few times - mostly hand and lower arm minor abrasions, some older PCs are heavy enough that even without dropping them they can dig in with their corners etc

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-03-05, 04:46:

I took a deskpro to the knee.....

😀 That made me laugh!

Fortunately it didn't put a big crimp in my digital adventuring, my knees are a bit touchy, an inch lower and I might have been limping for weeks and unable to lift anything stably. I was angry for like 15 mins until I discovered I could still walk fine. It got flesh mostly and it's still a bit tender, but mechanics good.

Many little cuts over the years from old AT cases and those stupid ass razor thin ATX IO shields.

It isn't a completed computer until it has had it's blood sacrifice...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x36ge2W7QOs

Slot brackets of course.

gen_angry wrote on 2023-03-06, 18:42:

It isn't a completed computer until it has had it's blood sacrifice...

Indeed. We all make our sacrifices to the machine spirit.
If I had a nickel for every time I'd received a small cut from unfinished metal edges on a cheap case, I'd have enough to buy a 3080ti, probably.
The only major injury I'd gotten was shearing off a fingernail trying to get a VLB card out of a death grip board.

We were moving out the soviet clone of IBM System/360 out of the uni, got disk drive cabinet dropped on my foot.

dropped a CD on my foot vertically which hurt like hell, and touched the caps of a PSU(one was a laptop charger) two times which made me go to an another universe and back

cyclone3d wrote on 2023-03-05, 04:11:

Getting hurt was par for the course when building computers back in the day. Sharp edges on the cases and if you didn't end up with a few cuts, you weren't doing it right.

My experiences exactly! Those sheet-metal cases were *sharp*. The motherboards were sharp! (metal solder joints, some needle-sharp, so you'd get cut and not even feel it, only to see blood later on during your system build).

I've never been harmed by an exploding computer, battey, or heat from heatsinks, bare CPUs, etc. Although some metal USB sticks get so hot that they's easily burn fingers. Same with NvMe drives.

Miraculously, I never got hurt from solder or from using a soldering iron. (probably because I'm always so careful when I use one).