LOL take it easy Cammy, I've had Amiga's for decades and my CD32 since it came out. I've always plugged / unplugged controllers into them with no issues. Am I just lucky?
Yes! It's well documented that's how you blow the circuitry that is responsible for the
in/out communication with the ports. So common that there's fuse mods and fuses for
the +5v line going to the joystick ports on some Amiga models.
Do you also belong to the school of "always hold a CD by the edges" and are you plugged into an earthing cable while upgrading your computer?
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Umm... both are common sense :-)
While you may not "need" an earthen ground connected while you are working with
solid state devices, you SHOULD always ground yourself out to discharge any static
you may (and probably are) harbouring.
And CD's?? Are you kidding? I have never understood how peoples collections can look
so ratty. I've got CD's from the early 80's that still look like new. And yes, a bunch of
tiny little scratches does make the error correction circuitry work harder - which results
in digital sounding that much more harsh.
So you're of the ilk that actually touches the bottom of the CD's? I just don't get why
anyone would feel the need to do that. I mean, go out their way to ruin their stuff.
This is why I NEVER lend out my CD's, DVD's, etc. Even LP's back in the day would be
returned in poor shape. The average joe just doesn't care - and it shows!
