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- From: sn15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steve Neas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WHAT is THIS?! (bizarre error)
- Message-ID: <kehBjuG00WB_0b24UB@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:37:46 GMT
- Organization: Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 24
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- >In article <9209131139.AA23562@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> z3kpw@TTACS1.TTU.EDU
- > ("Wheeler, Kevin") writes:
- >>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.
-
- I've heard this warning many times (and occasionally not heeded it).
- So what would this actually do to harm the computer?
-
- Just curious,
- -Steve-
- sn15@andrew.cmu.edu
-