Not an Apple story but: I was replacing a CPU module on a Sun Microsystems server that cost more than my house did at the time. It was around 2AM and I’d been up for way too many hours; the job was very fiddly. I thought I’d lined everything up but one pin on the motherboard wasn’t in perfect position, and ended up being bent at nearly 90 degrees. After my heart started beating again, I very carefully nudged the pin back up to as straight as I could get it, and then seated the CPU module. The server came to life and I continued to live 
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OT, but this?
That brings back some memories…
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It sure does! My first file manager.
5 days later my laptop still faintly smells of coffee. The goopy stickiness of my spacebar seems to have been improved. I did use this as an excuse to buy an iPad in case I had to send my computer away for repair.
Maybe this spell was for the best!
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Key question, do you enjoy the smell of coffee?
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When I was in college, I spilled some Sprite in my PC keyboard and it gummed up the space bar. A similar Coke spill a few months later resolved the problem.
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Heck yeah! This was some fancy organic vanilla flavored expensive stuff with a dash of my favorite oat milk so the odor is pleasant.
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Can’t you flag a warning in front of a disgusting content like that…?!
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Ok ok ok I know flavored coffee is sacrilegious BUT I just needed to switch things up a bit.
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In 2010, when I had just bought my first ever MacBook Pro, I was on vacation in the United States, I’d landed at Washington Dulles airport, and headed to the car rental place. In the queue, I got out my documents that were in the same pocket of my backpack as my laptop (because it keeps them nice and flat 
) and while waiting, I rested my laptop on top of my suitcase.
Next thing I heard was a cringe-inducing earth shattering crash, as the solid aluminium body of my brand new MacBook Pro made contact with the solid tile flooring of the car rental lobby.
Amazingly, the laptop all still worked OK - but I forever had a lovely dent on one corner of it and the top case never properly lined up with the bottom case at that point ever again!
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Exactly that. Finder could learn a thing or two.