Your most embarassing Noob/Lamer first time computer moment - Page 2

cosmiq · 04 February 2010, 12:28

When I first loaded a program in AmigaBASIC, I didn't dare to run it because I thought it would consume all my printer paper (PRINT"this and that")

So I first removed all the paper from the printer.. jah..

BippyM · 04 February 2010, 12:33

A metal slide from a disk became lodged in my a500 drive.. I first tried to get it out with a knife (yeah!!) then I removed the warranty stickers and rescued the slider... Only I'd killed the drive with said knife... My dad was not amused and it cost £125 to repair a 1 month old Amiga

AmigaFriend · 04 February 2010, 12:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosmiq

When I first loaded a program in AmigaBASIC, I didn't dare to run it because I thought it would consume all my printer paper (PRINT"this and that")

So I first removed all the paper from the printer.. jah..

Lol! I think you thought your Amiga was one of these:

Angus · 04 February 2010, 12:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I remember mine well.

I still think that's logical enough for a "newcomer".

On my C64 I think my first game was Aztec, which was great, but I remember there being a seperate key to make your explorer run instead of walk. Anyway, I was reluctant to use the run mode too much as I was worried it might wear the computer out.

Look, the C64 made a huge clattering sound effect as the guy's boots pounded through those caverns, and it was a bit alarming, okay?!!

Silhouette · 04 February 2010, 15:17

I spent an hour troubleshooting a slow computer for a relative before realizing that he had pushed the "turbo" button.

Heavy Stylus · 04 February 2010, 18:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by seuden

My first pc, for some reason I decided to switch the PSU unit from 240 to 110v. Obviously it blew the friggin thing and I had to replace it, lol.

Hehe - I blew my first PC by inserting a memory upgrade in the wrong way round. I realised my error when the mother board started smoking after turning it on..!

TCD · 05 February 2010, 15:04

Inserting a game floppy my first PC and wondering why it wouldn't boot...

The whole PC stuff made me feel very n00bish at first. Dunno, but maybe I just can't remember my early C64 days anymore, because there had to be some very embarrassing moments there too

Jonathan Drain · 05 February 2010, 18:03

For the first month or so we had our Amiga, we held the mouse upside-down (rotated 180 degrees so up is down).

A few years later we found a teacher who did the same with the Windows 3 machines. His password for the school computers was "gold".

Falcon Flight · 05 February 2010, 18:14

I recall not knowing how to "double-click" with the mouse to boot up an original of Arkanoid on Atari ST, a 3.5" disk in case (not box) that I still, yes, still have today, and it STILL works. The icon showed in TOS (or whatever the OS was called), and I just couldn't get it going.

moral of story: RTFM.

EDIT: this was when Atari ST was THE machine, and the Amiga was just around the corner, so sorry about the non-Amiga reference, but I believe the Amiga version auto-booted.
EDIT2: this was in ~1988.

Dan · 05 February 2010, 20:02

Mine was on C64, trying to type the example program listings from the User manual.
- Not fitting lines in the book were typed as new line -.-

capehorn · 06 February 2010, 01:14

Reading about Diskdoctor when I was about 7. I thought I would be a good idea to fix all my favourite games just in case they had any problems, so I spent an hour or so Diskdoctoring them all. Needless to say it destroyed the bootblocks on them and none of them would load

It was possibly the most devastating moment of my entire childhood realising that I, myself, on my own, but unwittingly, had destroyed my entire games collection!

My mother spent a week writing letters to all the game companies explaining what had happened and sent the disks back to them. Most of them sent replacements

I believe she also wrote a letter to Amiga Format warning people aganist doing the same, and they printed it!

zipper · 06 February 2010, 13:03

Not embarassing, but surprising: I could fix a corrupted Lotus I disk with Diskdoctor so it could play the first part. Later with DiskSalv it could be totally fixed

Npl · 07 February 2010, 10:51

hmm, cant remember my first time computer moments, but I remember the first time I played a game online.
UT`99 to be exact, I joined on of the many servers and started talking to the other players. They never responded, no matter how hard i asked for some replies... some minutes later I realized they suspiciously had the same names as the bots in the offline modes.

alkis21 · 07 February 2010, 12:58

This is a very entertaining thread

and capehorn has the coolest mom ever!

capehorn · 07 February 2010, 13:35

LOL, it was very endearing. I remember she used the phrase "Capehorn is heartbroken that he will no longer be able to play his favourite game..." in most of them!

Mick_AKA · 07 February 2010, 13:42

I cracked the first audio CD I ever owned trying to force it down into my Commodore 64's 1541 drive.

Ziaxx · 07 February 2010, 14:50

Good to see I'm not the only one with lame moments!

Back when I got my C128 in 1986 I was sitting around typing random "commands", since I didn't bother reading the manual that much, but I had seen some commands in movies like Wargames and others. Most of them gave me a syntax error in return, but somehow I managed to get into the machine code monitor by typing a randomly guessed command. Once in there I saw bits and pieces of crippled words. I was like "Whoa, I must've hacked into some top secret computer system just like in Wargames". That shouldn't have been totally impossible to do I guess, if it wasn't for the fact that I had no modem, I thought I got in there through the power lines...

lilalurl · 07 February 2010, 14:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Npl

UT`99 to be exact, I joined on of the many servers and started talking to the other players. They never responded, no matter how hard i asked for some replies... some minutes later I realized they suspiciously had the same names as the bots in the offline modes.

There is a server-side mutator for UT2004 which, among other things:
- can give random names to bots from a list that you create
- make bots "type" messages on certain events, such as being killed, killing a player etc...

So you could play on a server and have a bot called b1gn00b who tells "You new at this Npl?" when it kills you.
They even can react specifically when you type a message specifying their names.

Graham Humphrey · 07 February 2010, 18:10

I remember when I first got my A500+, one of the first things I did was mess about with Workbench and not knowing what the Format option did, I inserted the Lemmings disk that came with it and, well, formatted it. Didn't realise what I did of course. I was only five at the time...

hit · 07 February 2010, 20:44

i often used a wire to shorten some pins of the C64's userport to get a warmstart/reset - but once i failed. later i bought an userport-interface with a reset-switch, which was cheaper in the end compared to the repair-shop

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04 February 2010, 12:28	#21
cosmiq Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Holland Age: 41 Posts: 314	When I first loaded a program in AmigaBASIC, I didn't dare to run it because I thought it would consume all my printer paper (PRINT"this and that") So I first removed all the paper from the printer.. jah..

04 February 2010, 12:33	#22
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	A metal slide from a disk became lodged in my a500 drive.. I first tried to get it out with a knife (yeah!!) then I removed the warranty stickers and rescued the slider... Only I'd killed the drive with said knife... My dad was not amused and it cost £125 to repair a 1 month old Amiga

04 February 2010, 15:17	#25
Silhouette Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lillehammer, Norway Posts: 10	I spent an hour troubleshooting a slow computer for a relative before realizing that he had pushed the "turbo" button.

05 February 2010, 15:04	#27
TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 46 Posts: 31,607	Inserting a game floppy my first PC and wondering why it wouldn't boot... The whole PC stuff made me feel very n00bish at first. Dunno, but maybe I just can't remember my early C64 days anymore, because there had to be some very embarrassing moments there too

05 February 2010, 18:03	#28
Jonathan Drain Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sector K240 Posts: 338	For the first month or so we had our Amiga, we held the mouse upside-down (rotated 180 degrees so up is down). A few years later we found a teacher who did the same with the Windows 3 machines. His password for the school computers was "gold".

05 February 2010, 18:14	#29
Falcon Flight evicted psycho Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: evictee paradise Posts: 166	I recall not knowing how to "double-click" with the mouse to boot up an original of Arkanoid on Atari ST, a 3.5" disk in case (not box) that I still, yes, still have today, and it STILL works. The icon showed in TOS (or whatever the OS was called), and I just couldn't get it going. moral of story: RTFM. EDIT: this was when Atari ST was THE machine, and the Amiga was just around the corner, so sorry about the non-Amiga reference, but I believe the Amiga version auto-booted. EDIT2: this was in ~1988.

05 February 2010, 20:02	#30
Dan Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 629	Mine was on C64, trying to type the example program listings from the User manual. - Not fitting lines in the book were typed as new line -.-

06 February 2010, 01:14	#31
capehorn Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 1,794	Reading about Diskdoctor when I was about 7. I thought I would be a good idea to fix all my favourite games just in case they had any problems, so I spent an hour or so Diskdoctoring them all. Needless to say it destroyed the bootblocks on them and none of them would load It was possibly the most devastating moment of my entire childhood realising that I, myself, on my own, but unwittingly, had destroyed my entire games collection! My mother spent a week writing letters to all the game companies explaining what had happened and sent the disks back to them. Most of them sent replacements I believe she also wrote a letter to Amiga Format warning people aganist doing the same, and they printed it!

06 February 2010, 13:03	#32
zipper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: finland Posts: 1,838	Not embarassing, but surprising: I could fix a corrupted Lotus I disk with Diskdoctor so it could play the first part. Later with DiskSalv it could be totally fixed

07 February 2010, 10:51	#33
Npl Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vienna / Austria Age: 44 Posts: 257	hmm, cant remember my first time computer moments, but I remember the first time I played a game online. UT`99 to be exact, I joined on of the many servers and started talking to the other players. They never responded, no matter how hard i asked for some replies... some minutes later I realized they suspiciously had the same names as the bots in the offline modes.

07 February 2010, 12:58	#34
alkis21 Zone Friend Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Age: 49 Posts: 1,408	This is a very entertaining thread and capehorn has the coolest mom ever!

07 February 2010, 13:35	#35
capehorn Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 1,794	LOL, it was very endearing. I remember she used the phrase "Capehorn is heartbroken that he will no longer be able to play his favourite game..." in most of them!

07 February 2010, 13:42	#36
Mick_AKA crusader of light Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Stone, Staffordshire. Posts: 1,151	I cracked the first audio CD I ever owned trying to force it down into my Commodore 64's 1541 drive.

07 February 2010, 14:50	#37
Ziaxx Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Sweden Age: 50 Posts: 90	Good to see I'm not the only one with lame moments! Back when I got my C128 in 1986 I was sitting around typing random "commands", since I didn't bother reading the manual that much, but I had seen some commands in movies like Wargames and others. Most of them gave me a syntax error in return, but somehow I managed to get into the machine code monitor by typing a randomly guessed command. Once in there I saw bits and pieces of crippled words. I was like "Whoa, I must've hacked into some top secret computer system just like in Wargames". That shouldn't have been totally impossible to do I guess, if it wasn't for the fact that I had no modem, I thought I got in there through the power lines...

07 February 2010, 18:10	#39
Graham Humphrey Moderator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK Age: 37 Posts: 11,167	I remember when I first got my A500+, one of the first things I did was mess about with Workbench and not knowing what the Format option did, I inserted the Lemmings disk that came with it and, well, formatted it. Didn't realise what I did of course. I was only five at the time...

07 February 2010, 20:44	#40
hit Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: planet earth Posts: 1,115	i often used a wire to shorten some pins of the C64's userport to get a warmstart/reset - but once i failed. later i bought an userport-interface with a reset-switch, which was cheaper in the end compared to the repair-shop

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