Has anyone had any bad/scarring amiga-related experiences?

[rvo_nl]

I had an external HD on my A1200. For some reason I've always had trouble with it disconnecting and I once made the mistake of connecting it backwards (it was a special connector that had power and IDE lines in one). Long story short, I killed the main harddrive.

had exactly the same experience. it was dark, late, and I had the power cable wrong. It was an internal drive, mind. I was lucky to receive a new drive under warranty but lost a lot of work in the process.
 
My other scarring moments were all about phone bills and my first modem..

[KThunder]

my wife said "me or them" about my two a1000s.
ok it wasn't that dramatic but she was upset.
my favorite computers ever, i still miss them. i did get a 1200 a while later and then after selling that a 3000.
and yes i am still with my wife

[Gulliver]

@koshman

Thank you for your kind words

[motrucker]

I am sure I am not the only A1200 owner who, in haste, plugged the IDE cable from the hard drive in one pin off, and let out all the blue smoke!! I caught it so quickly that it only burned the cable - but that made me slow down, and triple check that cable when I plugged it back in.

[lorddef]

Around about 1998 I had an A600 that had every hack I could find on aminet applied to it, it was a mess, and it eventually caught fire right in front of me.

[paul1981]

I attached my 2.5" hard drive to my FastATA in my 1200 but with only one row of pins connected....oops.  I turned it on...."black screen. But why?"
Rebooted...same black screen. Hmmm, time to double check connections....yep, I must have been tired or blind.  Luckily no damage was done.

Another time, I picked up my 1200 with apollo1260 in trapdoor, no trapdoor cover either - so it was sort of hanging down for a few seconds....I was really worried about that, but again, seemingly no damage done!  I feel lucky not to have damaged anything in both incidents.

I also mistakenly shorted the 5v to somewhere when playing around with something in my 1200 case...screen went black. I had all goodies attached, prelude, fastata, apollo1260, squirrellscsi.....I was preparing for the worst - again, no damage done. :lol:

[Hell Labs]

my wife said "me or them" about my two a1000s.
ok it wasn't that dramatic but she was upset.
my favorite computers ever, i still miss them. i did get a 1200 a while later and then after selling that a 3000.
and yes i am still with my wife

Your wife makes no sense. Really, if I was living with somebody who said "you can't own your own property any more, or else", I'd just pack my bags and leave without bothering to let her know. Then again my one rule for life is "stay single, it's cheaper and you can own a motorbike without anyone complaining about the engine on the kitchen table". Living for other people must suck.

On topic, I put disk 1 (of 3) of jungle strike in my amiga and turned it on. an hour later? Still loading disk 1, so I gave up. I wish I was joking. I've got monkey island 2, and that's 11 floppies. I'm terrified all i'll be able to play is pacman.

[Crom00]

Heh... yep I hada girl that gave me the

"it's the me or them" rant...

I got the hell outta dodge... I would never say that sort of thing to a woman...
It's me or the dog...
It's me or the sewing Hobby
IT's me of the shopping habbit...


But women are wired different.

[Bif]

I had just recently got my first computer that I'd waited for a long time with my first paycheques from my first job - an A500. I couldn't afford a monitor yet, so I had some old heavy 20" TV as my monitor. The TV was sitting on the top tier of some cheap Ikea MDF desk. I had picked up TV sports football I think, and just left the demo loop running so I could sit back on my bed and admire it all.
 
Well the TV was too big for the top tier, and I had somehow left it balancing precariously. The TV slipped off the top tier on to the amiga, and the desk imploded and the whole thing ended up on the floor. I was totally freaked out. Luckily it all seemed to keep working, but the desk needed some work to make it stay together again.

[Amiduffer]

I've gotten some burns from a soldering iron, and some skin scrapped off dissasembling my A3000, but nothing that would leave scars.

[Belial6]

The trick is making sure the 'It's me or them' confrontation is at the very beginning of the relationship so that when you explain that 'you can get a new girlfriend if you keep the computer, but not a new computer if you keep the girlfrind', you are not already emotionally vested.

[XDelusion]

Ya one time my Amiga told me I had a purrdy mouth...

[marcfrick2112]

The trick is making sure the 'It's me or them' confrontation is at the very beginning of the relationship so that when you explain that 'you can get a new girlfriend if you keep the computer, but not a new computer if you keep the girlfrind', you are not already emotionally vested.

Hear hear! Very well put Belial6! I have a pet tarantula, I've had some girls over and they freaked out, saying 'You have to get rid of that Thing! ' I show them the door, quickly....
Female tarantulas can live up to 32 years, few marriages last that long. :roflmao:

And to Gulliver, I'm also very happy that you, your family, and your miggies are OK.  My prayers are with you.

'bad / scarring Amiga experiences'.  Hmmm, my first ever hard drive.... I ordered a Supra SCSI interface w/ 40MB Quantum from one of the countless companies that had little ads in the back of various C64/Amiga mags. .... My drive never came... I called the company, then UPS... It seems that my drive was delivered to a vacant lot, and signed for....    The company was great about it, they sent a replacement.... but, it rarely ever use UPS anymore.
  Not amiga-related... but with the same A500 / '030 system, I had a 100MB Zip drive, I loved it.... I had it sitting on the 'sidecar' HD interface of my 500. (the HD was in a seperate enclosure) One day, the drive slipped off and fell, a whopping 2 inches to the desk.... it killed my Zip drive...... I would have never gotten another, except a good friend gave me one.. and just then I found all of my old Zip disks...

[runequester]

Worst I have had happen was the internal floppy drive dying in my 1200.
Unfortunately most games could only boot from the internal floppy so I was stuck playing Dune 2 for a week, before I could get it fixed

[dougal]

The experience i can think of is when some keys on my A500 Plus's keyboard started failing for me. I don't know if it was normal for the time (circa 1993) or else if it was my local shop being a rip-off merchant, but i paid the equivelent of 100 Euros to replace the keyboard.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Yep, my floppy drive died on my A500 and the certified service center charged $200 for a replacement floppy and $100 to install it. (Less than 10 minutes work).
Since then if something breaks, I replace it myself.