{"id":3405,"date":"2019-06-03T02:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T06:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2019-06-03T02:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T06:50:43","slug":"examples-of-my-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Examples of my stupidity…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here I list the (many?) very dumb thing I have done.\u00a0 Actually started after the Boat GPS fiasco of Spring 2019… I added the PC-XT Unformatted Floppy incident of 1988???.<\/p>\n

Also: TIL learned that typing “—” at BOL will make a nice line across the screen.\u00a0 Actually, anything more than three dashes makes a line.<\/p>\n

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1988?-??-?? – spent 6+ hours, from ~10pm to 4am, troubleshooting a problem writing (to a 5.25″ 360KB floppy disk) a due-in-the-morning assignment for a SSFC class.\u00a0 Around 3:45am, with every part out of the PC-XT clone (still have reciept, I think???),\u00a0 I decided to “format” the floppy disk.\u00a0 Fixed.\u00a0 I was working with an unformatted box of disks.\u00a0 Forgot to format them.<\/p>\n

This was:<\/p>\n

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  1. before easily removed floppy drives.\u00a0 Back in those days, there was a bracket that held the floppy drive(s), usually a 5.25″ 360KB and perhaps a 3.5″ 720KB floppy disk (although it was actually in a rigid shell with a sliding protector over the access slot); this bracket was usually held in by 4 screws on the bottom of the case.<\/li>\n
  2. inexpensive floppy disks.\u00a0 Easily 30$C for a box of 10, name brands but just “normal” disks.\u00a0 Upwards of 100$C for high-quality versions.<\/li>\n
  3. Pre-formatted floppy disks.\u00a0 Yes, at the price we payed, you had to format the disks before you could use it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    2019-05-26 – destroyed, perhaps permanently, our original GPS (Garmin Nuvi 255W) when I wired it directly to the 12V system in the 18′ boat.\u00a0 Thought I was clever by wiring direct instead of using the cigarette adapter supply.<\/p>\n

    Contra? I was smart enough NOT to plug in our current (~2019) car GPS, a Garmin ???? into the boat.\u00a0 Oddly, since it was the one differential test I didn’t do.\u00a0 Obviously by luck, not by smart.<\/p>\n

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    2019-06-03 – made same mistake, blew up Garmin Nuvi GPS… the one we got for $20 on Kijiji.\u00a0 Finally dawned on m… by eliminating the lighter adapter, I also eliminated the 12V -> 5V conversion.<\/p>\n

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