Randall R Schulz wrote:
When I was a kid I reached into the high voltage cage of a television. I was sure that overnight was long enough for the charge to bleed off. Wrong!!
When I was in high school, I was working on a TV in my bedroom. I had removed the picture tube, when my hand hit the HV terminal. Forunately, the tube was over my bed, when I dropped it.
Occam's razor: Don't posit insanity (or sociopathy) when forgetfulness (clumsiness) will explain the symptoms.
To wit: When I was an admin in our college Unix lab and responsible for both hardware and software maintenance, on various occasions I:
1) Swapped the arguments on the "dump" command and ended up trashing the first several blocks of the disk (but who needs a boot block or a super block?).
On one system I worked on, to copy a file, you'd enter a command such as: XFER [source] > [destination] and the command to delete a file was: XFER [source] > So you had to be very careful to not hit the Enter key, before you specified a destination, or you'd delete the source file.