First post, by Ampera
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Goodie goodie goodie, I have a few.
Was just talking on the PS/1 thread when I thought it might be funny to see what other people have done, and since screwing up is something everybody here can admit to doing at least once, there's plenty of room.
My golden moment was when I was maybe 10, 9 even, forgot how old I was. A neighbor gave me their old PS/1, a consultant model with a i486-SX-25. I had fun with that machine, I am very sad I broke the damn thing, it would have made a fine mid era DOS machine, SB16 and it would have been golden. Well I was bored one day, and I was poking around the machine with a screwdriver while the cover was off. Shorting jumpers because dumbarse. I got the VGA card to make a few strange colours by shorting a header, and then I hit on jumper and with a loud pop, the machine was no more. I want to go back in time and slap myself as hard as possible for doing that one.
I also killed a Model 2 Sega Genesis, but I am not entirely sure how I did that. Was trying to screw the thing back together, and the RF shield kept shorting things until some coil thing blew. I could probably repair it, but laziness gets the better of us.
Interested to see your major malfunctions, not a man among us has not done some major thing.
🤣, almost wasn't going to mention, but years and years ago, I lost a Muzzy DVD on loan from the library (It's a language learning tool) and in order to pay for it, my parents sold my computer, this was many years before even the PS/1 blunder, but that sucked.