Thanks for the memory (Score 1)

When I was about 12 yrs old I had a 16k Sinclair Spectrum. I saved up my pocket money and bought another whopping 16k of memory. Quickly casting aside the instructions, I pulled open the case and shoved the chips in where there was space (bending legs as I went). On powering up the thing I was presented with a screen full of flashing purple and green ASCII characters and no amount of leg straightening and chip repositioning made any difference. Defeated, I pulled the chips and sent them back to the manufacturer with a note saying that they must be damaged and could I have my money back (which I would need to pay someone less clueless to fix my now dead Speccie). I got a package back from them with a nice note attached telling me how to insert the chips and also where I should put the other chips I had sent back to them - CPU, IO controller, etc. Basically the guts of my Spectrum had survived two encounters with the Royal Mail. Unfortunately the Speccie had a sad end - it melted due to overheating of the memory :(

I learnt my lesson and no longer immediately throw the instructions away.