After I got my first computer that came with a hard drive (all 40 megabytes of it), I accidentally loosened the ribbon cable to the drive and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't load the operating system. Had to take it back to the shop for that one, too.
I was broke. I didn't get a putter until early 90's. It was an old Tandy. With a 386 intel or something, came with 2 MB Ram and a modem that hadn't been used since Reagan. lol.
I remember adding RAM and got it to 28 MB RAM, a 33.6 Modem, a sound card to get it working right. I paid $100 for a years worth of internet. I used Netscape 1.22, lol. I had to delete a game and install another to play and then delete that to play another. It had 200 MB of RAM and Windows 3.1.
I remember when I found Free Republic, I was hooked.