Re: Embarrassing!!! But how hard do I have to push??

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:01

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Nick Bishop <nick4mony@my-deja.com> wrote in
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> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>> Adam Sutton <csyas@comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote

>>> (or the DIMM for that matter)

>> Yeah, you're not likely to snap them putting them into the socket.

>> I find it hard to believe that even a real klutz would manage to put it in
>> reversed, but I have seen someone do that with a VGA video connector.

> Amusing: I've heard of someone reversing
> a Molex power connection to a hard drive

Yeah, seen one of those too. Different fella.

> - he's a big tough Aussie bloke.

This one isnt that big and tough.

> Well, the hard drive was absolutely fried.

Yeah, this one was too.

> Circa 1995.

Saw one klutz who 'worked' for DEC put a PDP-11 board in backwards.
Even harder to do than with a dimm. Blew the side right out of some ICs |-)

That bugger replaced a bloody great power transformer in a
massive great drum printer, which had every single terminal
numbered, and every wire numbered. And managed to stuff
that up too. Rather spectacular that one was.

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