>>Argh. The weirdest thing happened yesterday. I was trying to connect an audio cable behind my Amiga setup and in the process I wiggled the monitor cable amongst the nest of cables.
>>The screen become "garbled" and the 'puter locked up, so I had to reboot.
>>Lo and behold, BOTH of the disks in my floppy drives had been corrupted!
>>So if anyone can please tell me a) what the hell happened
>>
>>I've had heaps of experience with Apple IIs, IBM PCs and Macintoshes for 10 years and nothing like this has ever happened. Guess it is true, "Only Amiga makes it possible." Argh.
>>
>What happened is that you decided to hook a device up to a computer while it
>was powered up. Not a very smart thing to do, and you probably deserve what
>happened.
>"Only Amiga makes it possible" --- Any machine makes it possible if you pull
>a no brainer like that.
Hey, go easy on the guy...we've all done stupid things that we *know* better
not to do... like yesterday....I unplugged the connection between my Ami and
a pair of battery operated speakers...forgetting to turn the little speakers
off (not something I'm used to having to do - and yes, I know better had I
noticed they were on.) Anyway, my sound suddenly disappeared when I tried
to reconnect it to my boombox...
Fortunately rebooting was all it needed...
Yes, I feel stupid...yes, I knew better...but, like I said, sometimes we do
stupid things without thinking, and I don't think the poor fellow should get