Serial connector stuck to computer

[Walter Dnes]

  This happened on my dead computer which I'm sending off to the York
Region recycling depot soon, so I'm not too pee'd off.  I *DONT'T* want
it to happen to my bright shiny (would you believe dull beige-coloured?)
new toy.

  I was disconnecting the peripherals from my dead machine.  As an IStop
customer, I got to use my backup dialup account (a totally separate ISP)
on occasion<g>.  I have an old USR X2 which was flashed to v90.  Anyhow,
when I was taking things apart, I ended up with the thumbscrew in my
hand, and the 9-pin connector was still firmly inserted into the PC's
serial port... oops.  After several minutes of inserting and wiggling
the thing, I finally got it out.  The big end came out of the modem
without incident, but it was a bit balky.

  I'm tempted to remove the thumbscrews altogether, and simply insert
the connecters when hooking up the new machine, to prevent this from
happening again.  Anybody ever run into this?

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