Our old CRT tv would all of a sudden go full volume at random and the only way to fix it to go back to a normal volume level was to smack the side of the tv.
I owned a computer for a while for which the standard startup procedure involved smacking it hard on the top to make sure everything was seated right.
Back then everything was made of metal, and it was an ugly white color, and we hit our computers if they weren’t doing what we wanted. We all knew what our ports and IRQs were. It was great days.
As someone whose job it was to fix other people’s computers when they borked the IRQs, before the days of drivers being widely available online… I can’t say it was all that fun from my end.
Our old CRT tv would all of a sudden go full volume at random and the only way to fix it to go back to a normal volume level was to smack the side of the tv.
I owned a computer for a while for which the standard startup procedure involved smacking it hard on the top to make sure everything was seated right.
Back then everything was made of metal, and it was an ugly white color, and we hit our computers if they weren’t doing what we wanted. We all knew what our ports and IRQs were. It was great days.
As someone whose job it was to fix other people’s computers when they borked the IRQs, before the days of drivers being widely available online… I can’t say it was all that fun from my end.