[geeks] A very d'oh! moment

[Mark]

On 11 May 2007, at 02:13, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> As I went to unplug the old power supply's motherboard connector,  
>> I noticed
>> that I'd plugged it in off-by-one when I reassembled the system after
>> dusting it out and reseating everything.
>
> Not to worry, I wish that was the worst thing I'd ever done.  I've  
> got a more
> than 1 spare part in my cabinet from the same kind of thing.
>
> Anyone who's had an Apple II before, and some of those small cards  
> only the
> size of the connector... well... they'll go in both ways.

Oddly enough, so do some Amiga Zorro cards, and also Amiga clockports  
usually bring a huge amount of guestwork into plugging stuff into  
*them*, because they carry +5V and don't have a Pin 1 (it's a long  
story). Luckily (knock on wood) I haven't killed anything of mine so  
far Amiga-wise.

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