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Reading about Seb Patrick's disaster was like a walk down memory lane.. back with my first PC (an Amstrad PC1512, with every possible bolt on (not that it was possible to bolt on many upgrades!) I'd not long before fitted a Hard Drive (they were optional extras) and got things just the way I wanted them. I needed to pass-on some information, and was looking around for a (5 1/4"!) floppy to use, by feeding a stack of them through the drive and typing "DIR A:" Finally, I found one that hadn't anything on it that I anted to keep , so I typed "FORMAT". With DR DOS, this wouldn't have caused a problem, but back then it was MS DOS 3.1... and I'd just told it to format (by default) the drive I was using, namely C: I lost everything, and it took me a full week to get back to where I'd been before inadvisably pressing the enter key. You learn from your mistakes... I recounted what I'd done to a friend who laughed and asked "Why didn't you just use Norton Utilities to UNformat the drive?" I was such a newb at the time that I'd never heard of Norton at the time... so I bought a copy.
Not quite as disastrous the first time I tried connecting the power supply to a 386 board. Two ways to do it... one of them's right, and the other one's wrong. (Black wires to the centre, or black wires to the outside?) I picked the expensive one, and had to go out and buy a new motherboard.
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It was still possible to buy Pentium II/III boards with AT power connectors (black wies to the middle!). 
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Original IBM PC (4.77MHz 8088, 256KB RAM, monochrome) · Original IBM PC XT (4.77MHz 8088, 512KB, 10MB HDD, monochrome) · Original Compaq Deskpro (7.14MHz 8086, 640KB, 20MB HDD, CGA graphics)
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well I bought a friend a cheap PC (from the back one of the advertisers in this very publication no less) within two hours of using it the fool flicked the voltage switch at the back to see what it does. BANG! .
not excactly a personal disaster but then again I was the one who paid for it!
harder,faster bet....er drat!
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My personal fave ended in tears, shouting and screaming, a dead arm, and a near miss...
Fixing a loose power switch on a 486 desktop system, I left the mains lead plugged into the wall, but switched off as an earth. Half way through tightening the conections, my father walked in and spotted what he thought was an obvious problem. He turned the mains on!
Like I said, it ended in tears, shouting and screaming, a dead arm, and a near miss... 
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I think the worst for me was cutting my hand various times in a case, whilst trying to install a DVD/CD drive.
That hurt.
Or, almost frying a C2D by not installing the heatsink properly
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Somewhere buried in the depths of the Other Stuff forum is a thread contributed to by dozens of the regulars listing all the various calamities that have befallen us - mostly self inflicted stupidity 
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| yerse bob and you were the thread starter http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic73350-7-1.aspx
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