What is the worst thing you've done that involves an Amiga

[Craven1200]

Sell off my power tower,  060/PPC-Grex Voodoo3 SD/FF amiga with eizo monitor because i wanted to get turntables.  still regret that till today

[AmiDude]

I once wanted to upgrade my first A600 from
1MB to 2MB. Purchased a new 1MB card + clock.
I couldn't get it fit because of the small
trapdoor space, so I forced it into place with
a knife. I must have wrecked some traces while
doing it, because after booting the system left
me with only 1.5MB instead of the desired 2MB!
:getmad:
 
I played around with that 1.5MB Amiga for about
2 years until I sold it!
:lol:

[GreenMeani]

Left my modem plugged in during a lightning storm. The poor amiga1200 didn't have a chance. Took over 2 months to get it back fixed.

> What is the worst thing you've done that involves an Amiga

This is *so* tempting, but I decline to comment.

Wayne

[Akiko]

"This is *so* tempting, but I decline to comment"

Hope you aren't referring to this site :-P :-)

[Akiko]

I recently bought a FastATA and didn't read the instructions correctly. Started the 1200 and in a blue flash the FastATA, 1200 mainboard and harddrive all dead.

Good in a way because I then had the excuse to replace with an expanded 4000  :-)

[CannonFodder]

I heard a French Canadian chap jerked off over his motherboard while it was powered up and ended up with a totally fried board.

[Andeda]

in the late 90's i sold my a500 with hundreds of games and programs to my ex girlfriends little brother, and bought my self a PC..
 :headwall:

[KThunder]

i played a game with my amiga instead of playing a game with my wife...

 ok maybe i dont like my miggy that much (id need a port adapter anyway) (a BIG port adapter) (wow that came out pretty lame, just do the "big port adapter" part with a nasally geek voice)
 
i ditched 2 dead a1000s once. i could have done a case mod for uae machines.

[Fester]

CannonFodder wrote:
I heard a French Canadian chap...fried board.

Il a tué son Amiga avec sa queue? Un vrai comique celui là.

[CannonFodder]

Fester wrote:

CannonFodder wrote:
I heard a French Canadian chap...fried board.

Il a tué son Amiga avec sa queue? Un vrai comique celui là.

Oui, cet athée est un imbécile !

[T3000]

Fester wrote:
I can probably id that little red and white bottle of Tylenol or the generic equivalent? :-)

Yeah. The headache removal tool get lots of use with my systems. Think I might need to upgrade though...  :-D  

[stianstr]

Worst things I've done:

- Sold my Amiga 500 with 3 mb ram and 60 gb hd. (Stupid!)

- Sold my Blizzard 1230-IV 50 MHz Accelerator card with  SCSI controller. (Why???!!!)

- Set my Amiga on fire by mistakenly inserting the IDE     cable in the wrong orientation. (Well, only the cable burned up luckily)



Corrected mistakes:

- Bought new Amiga 500+ with 8 mb ram and 340 mb HD.

- Replaced burned up IDE cable

[stianstr]

Apart from being sorry for having sold my old Amiga's I've done some dumb things, which fortunately never harmed my Amiga's, like adding/removing harddrives and external SCSI units while the machine was still running.

Well, SCSI is supposed to be hot-swap. Meaning you can add/remove SCSI units while the system is on. No harm in that afaik.

[pan1k]

I got a free A4000T. Had video toaster 4000, Fully loaded. Sold it on eBay. damnit!

[Zac67]

Back in the days when CDROM drives were very expensive and I had a brand new A3000: I used my old A500 with an A570 attached as CDROM 'server' via Parnet.

Late one night I had to print a page for the next morning, so I removed the Parnet cable, plugged in the printer cable and repowered the A3k - realizing that nothing happened and there was a smell of something burning in the air...

Of course I had plugged the printer to the SCSI port, situated very conveniently directly above the parallel port. Fortunately only two picofuses (pretty hard to get those days) and a vaporized board trace had to be replaced. And I added a blind DB25 plug to the SCSI port, just in case. ;-)